Escaping minimum pay and wage traps

Boosting the income-earning capacity of the lower paid through enhancing skills and promoting the creation of enterprises is the way to go, writes Kyran Fitzgerald

Amazon boss Jeff Bezos has — not for the first time — put the cat among the pigeons, this time with his announcement that the minimum wage for all of his US employees will be raised to $15 (€13) an hour, or around twice the US federal national minimum wage.