Is working enough to escape poverty? Evidence on low-paid workers in Italy
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Keywords
Low pay; Earnings; Working Poverty; Minimum wage; Italy;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J3 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs
- J6 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers
- I3 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EUR-2023-10-02 (Microeconomic European Issues)
- NEP-LMA-2023-10-02 (Labor Markets - Supply, Demand, and Wages)
- NEP-LTV-2023-10-02 (Unemployment, Inequality and Poverty)
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