Determining the Effect of the Minimum Wage on Income Inequality

This paper will focus on the relationship between the minimum wages and income inequality in nations that are members of the Organization for Economic Co- ...

The Effects of the Minimum Wage on Earnings Inequality: Evidence ...

Increasing the minimum wage is supposed to raise earnings for millions of low-wage workers and therefore lower earnings inequality. However, there is no ...

The Tight Link Between the Minimum Wage and Wage Inequality

A higher minimum wage is an important way to address wage inequality, as the erosion of the minimum wage is the main reason for the increase in inequality.

Do minimum wages deliver what they promise? Effects of minimum ...

Statutory minimum wages are most often justified as policy choices that reduce income inequality and poverty rates and improve economic efficiency when ...

How Increasing the Federal Minimum Wage Could Affect ...

In general, increasing the federal minimum wage would raise the earnings and family income of most low-wage workers and thus lift some families ...

Determining the Effect of the Minimum Wage on Income Inequality

Many recent studies have shown a significant increase to income inequality since the 1980s. One of the proposed methods for fixing this trend is to increase ...

Can the minimum wage reduce poverty and inequality in the ...

Within three months of a wage floor increase, the incidence of poverty falls by 2.8% and income inequality drops by up to 3.1%. •. Effects on income ...

"Do Living Wages alter the Effect of the Minimum Wage on Income ...

Our results show that countries with the minimum wage higher than the living wage value do see lower inequality.

Better together: Pairing smaller minimum wage increases with tax ...

If society's goal is to redistribute income and reduce inequality, “a moderate minimum wage increase can play a valuable role in supporting ...

Why minimum wages are a critical tool for achieving racial justice in ...

The minimum wage is one of the primary tools for raising the wages of low-income workers. This was the case at its inception in some states ...

The Contribution of the Minimum Wage to US Wage Inequality over ...

We reassess the effect of minimum wages on US earnings inequality using additional decades of data and an IV strategy that addresses.

Chapter 7 – Monitoring the effects of minimum wages

... effects of minimum wages on variables such as wages, employment, informality, hours of work, gender pay gaps, income inequality or poverty. Studies should ...

Reducing inequality with the minimum wage

The result is wage increases for workers from the 1st through the 80th percentile of the earnings distribution. The increase is largest for low- ...

Raising the Minimum Wage Would Boost an Economic Recovery ...

In a 2019 piece, economist Arindrajit Dube examined the impacts of minimum wage hikes on workers in the bottom 30 percent of income, finding ...

The Effects of the Minimum Wage on Earnings Inequality

income/wage distribution, the minimum wage can help reduce inequality. Evidence outside the U.S. is also limited, focusing primarily on Central and South ...

Does the Minimum Wage Affect Wage Inequality? A Study for the Six ...

Is there causal evidence of an equalizing effect of the minimum wage policies over the wage distribution, and ultimately on the income distribution? The rest of ...

The Impact of Minimum Wages on Income Inequality in the EU

... minimum wage are crucial for determining the final impact on income distribution. Furthermore, they show that wage inequality varies significantly from country.

The Minimum Wage and Inequality: The Effects of Education ... - jstor

cal finding that minimum wages affect inequality in the upper tail of the wage distribution: the minimum wage does not only affect those who earn wages ...

The impact of the minimum wage on income and employment in ...

1 shows the results of estimating equation (2), which yielded no significant effects on employment ... Manacorda (2010), “Minimum wages and earnings inequality in ...

The Distributional Effect of Minimum Wages: Evidence for Linked ...

... minimum wage and aggregate measures of income inequality ... regression approach, estimating the effect of minimum wages on income growth for a ...