urban poverty. …

consistent with the conclusions reached by prior research, including Holzer's (2008) review of that earlier evidence. Living wage … in urban poverty. …

rates and guaranteed social assistance (and unemployment insurance) have caused a German version of the poverty trap, where …

Using data from the German SOEP, this paper analyses whether there have been (a) any significant changes in poverty … rates and poverty intensities before and after the Hartz IV reforms and (b) whether there have been observable changes in … the effect of employment in reducing the threat or intensity of poverty. Using multivariate analyses we can find no …

In Europe, there are significant differences in the extent and in the structure of in-work poverty. Based on a … sufficient to avoid poverty. Further steps regard the role of the household context (needs and further income) and the effect of … and other influences on the risk of in-work poverty. …

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 …

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 poverty, namely low wage rate, weak labour force attachment, and high …

quality (in the form of health outcomes) and the number of children in the family at a time when genuine poverty still existed … in Britain. Our results provide strong support both for negative birth order effects and negative family size effects on … positively influences the heights of children but, even after accounting for this, the number of children in the family still has …

zeigen, dass der Übergang zu einem selbst restriktiv ausgestalteten Grundeinkommen die Zahl der Transferempfänger gegenüber …