Wages And Economic Policies For The Poor
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Minimum Wages And Social Policy
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Author : Wendy V. Cunningham
language : en
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Release Date : 2007
Minimum Wages And Social Policy written by Wendy V. Cunningham and has been published by World Bank Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Political Science categories.
Offering evidence from both detailed individual country studies and homogenized statistics across the Latin American and Caribbean region, this book examines the impact of the minimum wage on wages, employment, poverty, income distribution and government budgets in the context of a large informal sector and predominantly unskilled workforces.
Wages And Economic Policies For The Poor
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
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Working And Poor
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Author : Rebecca M. Blank
language : en
Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
Release Date : 2007-01-09
Working And Poor written by Rebecca M. Blank and has been published by Russell Sage Foundation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-01-09 with Business & Economics categories.
Over the last three decades, large-scale economic developments, such as technological change, the decline in unionization, and changing skill requirements, have exacted their biggest toll on low-wage workers. These workers often possess few marketable skills and few resources with which to support themselves during periods of economic transition. In Working and Poor, a distinguished group of economists and policy experts, headlined by editors Rebecca Blank, Sheldon Danziger, and Robert Schoeni, examine how economic and policy changes over the last twenty-five years have affected the well-being of low-wage workers and their families. Working and Poor examines every facet of the economic well-being of less-skilled workers, from employment and earnings opportunities to consumption behavior and social assistance policies. Rebecca Blank and Heidi Schierholz document the different trends in work and wages among less-skilled women and men. Between 1979 and 2003, labor force participation rose rapidly for these women, along with more modest increases in wages, while among the men both employment and wages fell. David Card and John DiNardo review the evidence on how technological changes have affected less-skilled workers and conclude that the effect has been smaller than many observers claim. Philip Levine examines the effectiveness of the Unemployment Insurance program during recessions. He finds that the program's eligibility rules, which deny benefits to workers who have not met minimum earnings requirements, exclude the very people who require help most and should be adjusted to provide for those with the highest need. On the other hand, Therese J. McGuire and David F. Merriman show that government help remains a valuable source of support during economic downturns. They find that during the most recent recession in 2001, when state budgets were stretched thin, legislatures resisted political pressure to cut spending for the poor. Working and Poor provides a valuable analysis of the role that public policy changes can play in improving the plight of the working poor. A comprehensive analysis of trends over the last twenty-five years, this book provides an invaluable reference for the public discussion of work and poverty in America. A Volume in the National Poverty Center Series on Poverty and Public Policy
Wages And Economic Policies For The Poor
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Author : Geraldine C. Maayo
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
Wages And Economic Policies For The Poor written by Geraldine C. Maayo and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with categories.
Minimum Wages And Poverty
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Author : J. P. Formby
language : en
Publisher: Elsevier Science Limited
Release Date : 2005-04-27
Minimum Wages And Poverty written by J. P. Formby and has been published by Elsevier Science Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-04-27 with Business & Economics categories.
This research investigates the impact of three equal cost alternative labour market policies on the economic well-being of low-income families and society in general at the turn of the 21st century. The principal focus is on how changes in the minimum wage, Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), and payroll taxes influence the well-being of low-income American families. The methods we employ also reveal how much of the benefits from raising the minimum wage, increasing the EITC, and reducing payroll taxes of workers in low-income families accrue to families in the middle and upper ranges of the income distribution. Thus, we consider the entire distribution, but focus primary attention on families and persons at or near the bottom of the income distribution. The research reported in this book has three distinguishing features.First, it examines and compares changes in the minimum wage, the EITC, and payroll taxes using a common analytical framework. There is considerable discussion of the impacts of raising the minimum wage and increasing EITC payments. The research reported here places these two policies in an 'equivalent social cost' framework and analyses the distributional consequences of each policy. In addition, we use the same equivalent cost paradigm to investigate an alternative policy that rebates a portion of the payroll taxes paid by workers in low-income families. A second distinguishing feature of the research is that it incorporates important insights from the poverty and income distribution literature into the analysis of labour market policies and family well-being.This literature suggests that any evaluation of success or failure of poverty fighting policies that increase the minimum wage, expand the EITC, or reduce payroll taxes requires that the poor population be properly identified and poverty measured using distribution sensitive measures of poverty and not simple headcounts of the poor. Further, it is important to check for the sensitivity of any conclusions about the policy choices to alternative poverty lines. A third distinguishing feature of the research is that we use important developments in the applied welfare economics of income distribution to address the key question: Which policy alternative is best?
Low Wage Employment In Europe
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Author : Wiemer Salverda
language : en
Publisher: ACCO
Release Date : 2005
Low Wage Employment In Europe written by Wiemer Salverda and has been published by ACCO this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Labor supply categories.
Understanding Growth And Poverty
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Author : Raj Nallari
language : en
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Release Date : 2011
Understanding Growth And Poverty written by Raj Nallari and has been published by World Bank Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Social Science categories.
Provides an understanding of economic policies for poverty reduction in developing countries. The policy areas include the various roles of government in ensuring the effective operation of a market economy, conducting fiscal policy, and influencing the money supply, exchange rates, and the financial sector.
Work Behavior Of The World S Poor
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Author : Mohammed Sharif
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-02-06
Work Behavior Of The World S Poor written by Mohammed Sharif and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-06 with Social Science categories.
This title was first published in 2003. The working poor of the world are observed to engage in long hours in hard jobs and to work more if wages are further reduced. Mainstream economics brushes off this tendency to increase labour supply as wages fall as perverse because it does not fit the conventional wisdom and tries to explain it as a result of "subsistence mentality", "limited aspiration", or "target income" behaviour of the poor. This however ignores the observed fact that the poor work long hard hours but most of the time, fail to meet their minimum needs of subsistence and live impoverished lives in absolute poverty deficient of both food and physical rest. This book postulates that the observed behaviour is the result of economic distress the working poor suffer and analyses it as a rational behaviour using the conventional utility maximization framework and derives both theoretical and empirical results consistent with the observation. This book aims to correct a serious misconception persisting in the literature relating to the working-poor labour-supply behaviour that is almost universally observed. It also goes onto develop, using the supply function, a methodology to determine the standard of subsistence income and physical rest for the worker.
What Government Can Do
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Author : Benjamin I. Page
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2002-04-15
What Government Can Do written by Benjamin I. Page and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-04-15 with Business & Economics categories.
At the same time, Page and Simmons show how even more could be - and should be - accomplished."--BOOK JACKET.
Poverty Income Distribution And Economic Policy In The Philippines
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Author : Mr.Philip R. Gerson
language : en
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Release Date : 1998-02-01
Poverty Income Distribution And Economic Policy In The Philippines written by Mr.Philip R. Gerson and has been published by International Monetary Fund this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-02-01 with Business & Economics categories.
Income distribution in the Philippines is highly uneven, and poverty rates are higher than in other ASEAN countries. In addition, although the poverty rate has declined over time, the rate of decline has been lower than in other countries, and income inequality has been persistent. These facts are due to historically slow economic growth, owing in part to poor policies, as well as to past failures to reduce structural impediments to a more equal distribution of income. Despite reforms in recent years, it will likely take some time to erase the effects of past policies.