rising employment on relative income poverty. This method has serious limitations. We propose a more sophisticated simulation …At the European level and in most EU member states, higher employment levels are seen as key to better poverty outcomes … impact on relative income poverty of moving towards the Europe 2020 target of 75 percent of the working aged population in …

Recent studies find in-work poverty to be a pan-European phenomenon. Yet in-work poverty has come to the fore as a … alleviating poverty among workers, both the policy options and constraints facing Continental European policymakers are … emulated elsewhere. We present micro-simulation derived results for Belgium to illustrate some of these points. Policy options …

poverty and income inequality have invited increasing volumes of research focusing on the nexus between equity and efficient … into a middle income country (ADB, 2014). This has stimulated the need to understand causes of inequality and poverty for … poverty because they will substantially undermine the economic growth if left unchecked (ADB, 2014). The objective of this …