diff --git a/02-data/intermediate/SAMPLE.bib b/02-data/intermediate/SAMPLE.bib index b772f89..31d8515 100644 --- a/02-data/intermediate/SAMPLE.bib +++ b/02-data/intermediate/SAMPLE.bib @@ -499,7 +499,7 @@ @article{Alinaghi2020, type = {Article}, - title = {The Redistributive Effects of a Minimum Wage Increase in New Zealand: {{A}} Microsimulation Analysis}, + title = {The Redistributive Effects of a Minimum Wage Increase in New Zealand: A Microsimulation Analysis}, author = {Alinaghi, Nazila and Creedy, John and Gemmell, Norman}, year = {2020}, month = dec, @@ -519,7 +519,7 @@ usage-count-last-180-days = {1}, usage-count-since-2013 = {6}, web-of-science-categories = {Economics}, - keywords = {country::New\_Zealand,inequality::income,region::AP,relevant,TODO::full-text,type::minimum\_wage}, + keywords = {country::New\_Zealand,done::extracted,inequality::income,region::AP,relevant,type::minimum\_wage}, file = {/home/marty/Zotero/storage/2GJJTPWY/Alinaghi et al_2020_The redistributive effects of a minimum wage increase in new zealand.pdf} } diff --git a/02-data/processed/relevant/Alinaghi2020.yml b/02-data/processed/relevant/Alinaghi2020.yml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..06c0349 --- /dev/null +++ b/02-data/processed/relevant/Alinaghi2020.yml @@ -0,0 +1,45 @@ +author: Alinaghi, N., Creedy, J., & Gemmell, N. +year: 2020 +title: "The redistributive effects of a minimum wage increase in New Zealand: A microsimulation analysis" +publisher: Australian Economic Review +uri: https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8462.12381 +pubtype: article +discipline: economics + +country: New Zealand +period: 2012-2013 +maxlength: +targeting: implicit +group: +data: New Zealand Household Economic Survey (HES) + +design: simulation +method: microsimulation model; uses Atkinson index +sample: 3500 +unit: individual +representativeness: national +causal: 0 # 0 correlation / 1 causal + +theory: +limitations: large sample weights may bias specific groups, e.g. sole parents +observation: + - intervention: minimum wage + institutional: 1 + structural: 1 + agency: 0 + inequality: income + type: 0 # 0 vertical / 1 horizontal + indicator: 1 # 0 absolute / 1 relative + measures: income; poverty + findings: small impact on inequality of income signals bad programme targeting; significant reduction in poverty measures for sole parents in employment but insignificant for sole parents overall + channels: many low-wage earners are secondary earners in higher income households; low-wage households often have no wage earners at all + direction: 1 # -1 neg / 0 none / 1 pos + significance: 0 # 0 nsg / 1 msg / 2 sg + +notes: +annotation: | + A study using a microsimulation to estimate the effects of a minimum wage increase in New Zealand on overall income inequality and further disaggregations along gender and poverty lines. + It finds limited redistributional effects for the policy, with negligible impact on overall income inequality and the possibility of actually increasing inequalities among lower percentile income households. + Additionally, while it finds a significant reduction in some poverty measures for sole parents that are in employment, when looking at sole parents overall the effects become insignificant again. + The authors suggest this points to bad programme targeting, which at best has negligible positive impact on income equality and at worst worsens income inequality in lower income households, due to may low-wage earners being the secondary earners of higher-income households but low-wage households often having no wage earners at all. + A pertinent limitation of the study includes its large sample weights possibly biasing the impacts on specific groups such as sole parents and thus being careful not to overestimate their significance. diff --git a/02-data/supplementary/lib.bib b/02-data/supplementary/lib.bib index 94afc50..5c70468 100644 --- a/02-data/supplementary/lib.bib +++ b/02-data/supplementary/lib.bib @@ -499,7 +499,7 @@ @article{Alinaghi2020, type = {Article}, - title = {The Redistributive Effects of a Minimum Wage Increase in New Zealand: {{A}} Microsimulation Analysis}, + title = {The Redistributive Effects of a Minimum Wage Increase in New Zealand: A Microsimulation Analysis}, author = {Alinaghi, Nazila and Creedy, John and Gemmell, Norman}, year = {2020}, month = dec, @@ -519,7 +519,7 @@ usage-count-last-180-days = {1}, usage-count-since-2013 = {6}, web-of-science-categories = {Economics}, - keywords = {country::New\_Zealand,inequality::income,region::AP,relevant,TODO::full-text,type::minimum\_wage}, + keywords = {country::New\_Zealand,done::extracted,inequality::income,region::AP,relevant,type::minimum\_wage}, file = {/home/marty/Zotero/storage/2GJJTPWY/Alinaghi et al_2020_The redistributive effects of a minimum wage increase in new zealand.pdf} } diff --git a/scoping_review.qmd b/scoping_review.qmd index 0a6e2b8..2964485 100644 --- a/scoping_review.qmd +++ b/scoping_review.qmd @@ -632,6 +632,11 @@ income and spatial income and age {{++ first describe income inequ as vertical then view it through horizontal lenses of other inequalities ++}} +@Alinaghi2020 conduct a study using a microsimulation to estimate the effects of a minimum wage increase in New Zealand on overall income inequality and further disaggregation along gender and poverty lines. +It finds limited redistributional effects for the policy, with negligible impact on overall income inequality and the possibility of actually increasing inequalities among lower percentile income households. +Additionally, while it finds a significant reduction in some poverty measures for sole parents that are in employment, when looking at sole parents overall the effects become insignificant again. +The authors suggest this points to bad programme targeting, which at best has negligible positive impact on income equality and at worst worsens income inequality in lower income households, due to may low-wage earners being the secondary earners of higher-income households but low-wage households often having no wage earners at all. +A pertinent limitation of the study includes its large sample weights possibly biasing the impacts on specific groups such as sole parents and thus being careful not to overestimate their significance. ## Gender inequality