Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/202899 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
Upjohn Institute Working Paper No. 19-302
Publisher: 
W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, Kalamazoo, MI
Abstract: 
We estimate the longer-run effects of minimum wages, the Earned Income Tax Credit, and welfare on key economic indicators of economic self-sufficiency in disadvantaged neighborhoods. We find that the longer-run effects of the EITC are to increase employment and to reduce poverty and public assistance. We also find some evidence that higher welfare benefits had longer-run adverse effects, and quite robust evidence that tighter welfare time limits reduce poverty and public assistance in the longer run. The evidence on the long-run effects of the minimum wage on poverty and public assistance is not robust, with some evidence pointing to reductions and some to increases.
Subjects: 
Neighborhood poverty
minimum wages
EITC
welfare
employment
JEL: 
I32
I38
J08
J21
J31
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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