part-time work. With involuntary part-time workers, as a particular group of underemployed, facing especially high poverty … rates, this was accompanied by an increase, on average, in the poverty risk associated with working part-time. However, this … was not reflected in a marked increase in the overall in-work poverty rate because full-time work remains dominant and its …

European countries together with the USA, Japan, Canada, Australia, and South Korea. It combines comparative research with …

part-time work. With involuntary part-time workers, as a particular group of underemployed, facing especially high poverty … rates, this was accompanied by an increase, on average, in the poverty risk associated with working part-time. However, this … was not reflected in a marked increase in the overall in-work poverty rate because full-time work remains dominant and its …

recent economic research on the welfare state and anti-poverty policy in rich countries, and explore their implications. We … begin with the conceptualisation and measurement of poverty, before sketching out some core features and approaches to the … welfare state and anti-poverty policies. We then focus on the central plank of the modern welfare state's efforts to address …