Handbook on In-Work Poverty

✍ Scribed by Henning Lohmann; Ive Marx

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Tongue: English
Leaves: 529
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

There has been a rapid global expansion of academic and policy attention focusing on in-work poverty, acknowledging that across the world a large number of the poor are ‘working poor’. Taking a global and multi-disciplinary perspective, this Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of current research at the intersection between work and poverty.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter
Copyright
Contents
List of contributors
1 Introduction
PART I: GENERAL PERSPECTIVES
2 The concept and measurement of in-work poverty
3 Low earnings and their drivers in relation to in-work poverty
4 Explaining cross-country differences in in-work poverty
5 Gender and in-work poverty
6 In-work poverty among migrants
PART II: INDIVIDUAL AND HOUSEHOLD PERSPECTIVES ON IN-WORK POVERTY
7 Demographic drivers of in-work poverty
8 Low pay, in-work poverty and economic vulnerability
9 Atypical employment and in-work poverty
10 Single-parent families and in-work poverty
11 The dynamics of in-work poverty
PART III: POLICIES AND INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK
12 Income support policies for the working poor
13 Impacts of the living wage on in-work poverty
14 Activation and in-work poverty
15 Childcare policies and in-work poverty
16 The international political economy of the working poor in Western Europe
PART IV: EUROPE AND THE US
17 Labor market flexibilization and in-work poverty: a comparative analysis of Germany, Austria and Switzerland
18 In-work poverty in Southern Europe: the case of Italy
19 In-work poverty in the United States
PART V: LATIN AMERICA, SOUTH AFRICA AND ASIA
20 In-work poverty and social assistance in developing countries
21 In-work poverty in Latin America: prevalence, driving forces and trends
22 The working poor in Chile during the period 1990–2013
23 In-work poverty in South Africa: the impact of income sharing in the presence of high unemployment
24 Changes in the demographic antecedents of poverty among workers in Israel, 1991–2011
25 In-work poverty in three East Asian welfare states
26 Working poor in the informal economy: material deprivation among female sex workers in India
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