while measures of relative poverty do not appear to have clearly identifiable drivers, income per capita and unemployment …Poverty increases were recorded mostly in terms of severe material deprivation and low work intensity rates starting … exhibit a significant explanatory power for the severe material deprivation and anchored at risk of poverty rates. In …

. In addition the unemployment statistics are distorted by the relatively low labour force participation of older workers …On the face of it, Austria’s labour market performs very well, which is reflected in one of the lowest unemployment … rates in the EU. However, while many of the euro area members have recently succeeded in reducing unemployment, the Austrian …

feature of the Finnish economy compared with that of Sweden and Denmark is the higher level of unemployment. In the early 1990 … adapt. The spectacular recovery of the Finnish economy has pushed up labour demand. While unemployment has fallen back from …