Labour market risk structures have changed quite dramatically since the early postwar years. Long-term unemployment, low wage employment and the associated problem of the working poor, and clashes between work and family life constitute today the most widespread social risks. They were not well...

The objective of this paper is to distinguish between different types of working poverty, on the basis of the mechanisms that produce it. Whereas the poverty literature identifies a myriad of risk factors and of categories of disadvantaged workers, we focus on three immediate causes of working...

The objective of this article is to distinguish between different types of working poverty, on the basis of the mechanisms that produce it. Whereas the poverty literature identifies a myriad of risk factors and of categories of disadvantaged workers, we focus on three immediate causes of in-work...