'Reconciling Work and Poverty Reduction' examines the link between poverty and labor market participation and the distributive capacity of welfare states. Focusing on the working-age population and the evolutions in Europe during the 'good economic years' before the financial crisis, this book...

In the social policy debate, fundamentally different ideas prevail about the interlinkages between such key variables as employment, low pay, social transfers and poverty. This paper presents basic empirical evidence on the validity of these ideas and the policy prescriptions that follow from...

Although employment growth is propagated as being crucial to reduce poverty across OECD countries, the actual impact of employment growth on poverty rates is still unclear. This study presents novel estimates of the impact of macro-level trends in female labour force participation on trends in...

This chapter in ‘Monitoring Social Inclusion in Europe' (a book edited A.B. Atkinson, A-C. Guio and E. Marlier, published by Eurostat on 5 June 2017) explores the missing links between employment policy success and inclusion policy failure. The focus is on individuals in the 20 to 59 age...