[PDF] Top 20 Poverty Effects of Minimum Wage Increase in Nigeria

... of Minimum wage (MW) increase on poverty level of households whose heads were in formal employment and the spillover effect on those in informal ...monthly wage of workers in the two ... See full document

... of minimum wage (The Tide Newspaper, 2018) ...service wage adjustment which will not be enough to carter for an upward review of a new minimum wage (Chiejina, ...new minimum ... See full document

... that wage increase will bring stability to the income of low paid workers, at least in the short ...between minimum wage increase and relative income stability for low-wage ...an ... See full document

... which minimum wages can affect productivity (Riley and Bondibene 2017; Metcalf 2008; Schmitt ...higher wage—or make less effort if decreas- ing wage differentials demotivate those who earned ... See full document

... equilibrium effects they imply and since these policy changes take into account interdependencies and interactions within the same ...sector, increase in welfare and decrease in ...headcount poverty ... See full document

... the increase in imported inputs enhances research e¢ciency of importing …rms and leads to a reallocation of research labor from non-importing …rms to importing ...higher minimum wage is associated ... See full document

... of minimum wage increases in ...the minimum wages, who argue that the minimum wage should be increased to compensate low-wage workers for the loss in real wages caused by high ... See full document

... a minimum wage based on collective bargaining ...a minimum wage for their members) will have a considerably higher minimum to average wage ratio compared to other scenarios ... See full document

... Seattle’s minimum wage increase was a useful case study for researchers for several reasons: it was quite large relative to other previously-studied changes; it was a city-level policy that raised ... See full document

... indexed minimum wage adjustments will help in fighting poverty, maintain an acceptable living standard for minimum wage workers, reduce dependence on government subsidies, and make- ... See full document

... an increase in minimum wage affects employment, con- sumption, and social welfare with dynamic general equilibrium model without mar- ket ...a minimum wage hike reduces an ac- tual ... See full document

... Generally, incentives are regarded as variable payments made to employees or a group of employees on the basis of the amount of output or results achieved. Alternatively, it could be payments made with the aim of pushing ... See full document

... In summary, the above analysis suggests that the combined effects of the minimum wage legislation and the anti-sweatshop campaigns led to as much as a 50 percent increase in real wages a[r] ... See full document

... the minimum wage when the elasticity of substitution between low-skill workers and high-skill workers in production is ...the minimum wage continues to have a positive e¤ect on the ... See full document

... the increase in the minimum ...the minimum wage was published in 2004. It is claimed that the minimum wage in Bulgaria is too high and should be abolished as it damages the free ... See full document

... Absolute poverty or destitution refers to the deprivation of basic human needs, which commonly include food, water, sanitation, clothing, shelter, health care and ...education. Poverty humiliates and ... See full document

... and poverty must be done comprehensively, cover various aspects of community life, and be implemented in an integrated ...the minimum wages, education, and inflation rates on unemployment and ...that ... See full document

... the minimum wage rates applicable in various states in ...of minimum wage operational in ...that Nigeria is Africa’s largest oil producer but pays the least minimum wage ... See full document

... equivalent wage interval in a period when there was no increase in the minimum wage potentially addresses this regression towards the mean problem, but does not take account of the fact that ... See full document

... the minimum wage on employment - if anything, the correlation is weakly ...real minimum wage, not reported, follows a similar ...fixed effects, controls, and dynamics (as discussed ... See full document