There is a substantial literature on the scarring effects of unemployment on future employment prospects and a smaller … HILDA survey data to investigate the inter-related dynamics of unemployment, low pay and skills under-utilisation in … Australia, focussing on differences by gender and educational pathways. It shows that skills under-utilisation also exhibits …

-effects panel data models, using panel data for Australia, provide little evidence of any negative spillover effect on the mental …

from unemployment, poverty, physical ill health, and mental illness. The largest proportion suffer from mental illness …. Multiple regression shows that mental illness is not highly correlated with poverty or unemployment, and that it contributes … more to explaining the presence of misery than is explained by either poverty or unemployment. This holds both with and …

Despite unprecedented extensions of available unemployment insurance (UI) benefits during the "Great Recession" of 2007 … food stamps and other safety net programs. The share of families with income below the poverty line nearly doubles. These …

low pay. A distinguishing feature is that five types of transition- not in the labour force (NILF), unemployment, self …

-work poverty was seen as a non-issue in countries with extensive labour protections, especially in countries with minimum wages at … organized labour and proper regulatory correction has turned out to be completely wrong. In-work poverty exists in all rich … economies. But what, exactly, do we mean by in-work poverty? How is it related to labour market trends and also to policies? And …

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

in urban poverty. -- living wage ; wages ; employment ; poverty …

well below the EU at-risk-of-poverty thresholds in many countries. Single earners with dependent children are especially at … risk of poverty. We discuss the options for making progress. …

extended unemployment benefits. Our empirical exercise explores a quasi-experimental setting generated by an increase in the … benefits entitlement period. The results point towards a hump-shape response of unemployment duration over the one-year pre-unemployment … interquartile range. This behavior of job searchers is consistent with labor supply models with unemployment insurance and savings …