circa 2000. We demonstrate that working poverty does not simply mirror overall poverty and that there is greater cross …Despite its centrality to contemporary inequality, working poverty is often popularly discussed but rarely studied by …-national variation in working than overall poverty. We then examine four explanations for working poverty: demographic characteristics …

generosity reduces the extent to which low education and the number of children increase poverty. Also, welfare generosity … poverty. Using the Luxembourg Income Study, we conduct a multilevel analysis of working-aged adult poverty across 18 affluent … Western democracies. Our index of welfare generosity has a negative effect on poverty net of individual characteristics and …