abstract: 'This paper examines the potential effects on inequality and poverty of
  a

  minimum wage increase, based on a microsimulation model that captures

  the details of household composition and the income tax and welfare

  benefit system and allows for labour supply responses. Results suggest

  that, largely due to the composition of household incomes, a policy of

  increasing the minimum wage has a relatively small effect on the

  inequality of income per adult equivalent person, and a money metric

  utility measure, using several inequality indices. Hence, the minimum

  wage policy does not appear to be particularly well targeted, largely

  due to many low wage earners being secondary earners in higher income

  households, while many low income households have no wage earners at

  all. These results are reinforced when allowing for wage spillovers

  further up the wage distribution. Nevertheless, a minimum wage increase

  can have a more substantial effect on some poverty measures for sole

  parents in employment.'
affiliation: 'Alinaghi, N (Corresponding Author), Victoria Univ Wellington, Victoria
  Business Sch, 23 Lambton Quay,Pipitea Campus,Rutherford House, Wellington 6011,
  New Zealand.

  Alinaghi, Nazila; Creedy, John; Gemmell, Norman, Victoria Univ Wellington, Victoria
  Business Sch, 23 Lambton Quay,Pipitea Campus,Rutherford House, Wellington 6011,
  New Zealand.'
author: Alinaghi, Nazila and Creedy, John and Gemmell, Norman
author-email: nazila.alinaghi@vuw.ac.nz
author_list:
- family: Alinaghi
  given: Nazila
- family: Creedy
  given: John
- family: Gemmell
  given: Norman
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1111/1467-8462.12381
eissn: 1467-8462
files: []
issn: 0004-9018
journal: AUSTRALIAN ECONOMIC REVIEW
keywords-plus: REDUCING POVERTY; EMPLOYMENT; INEQUALITY; TAXATION; REFORM; PAY; UK
language: English
month: DEC
number: '4'
number-of-cited-references: '51'
orcid-numbers: Alinaghi, Nazila/0000-0002-2005-2604
pages: 517-538
papis_id: 645bf749d70bd600930d73b8c7013993
ref: Alinaghi2020redistributiveeffect
times-cited: '1'
title: 'The Redistributive Effects of a Minimum Wage Increase in New Zealand: A Microsimulation
  Analysis'
type: article
unique-id: WOS:000600777900004
usage-count-last-180-days: '1'
usage-count-since-2013: '6'
volume: '53'
web-of-science-categories: Economics
year: '2020'