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 …

We examine the poverty rates and the income configurations among Japan and the LIS countries. The LIS countries are … decreasing recently in Japan. In Japan and Taiwan even in households cohabiting with children, the poverty rates and income … configurations differ depending on the marital status of the children. Poverty rates are higher in case of cohabiting with unmarried …

. Das Ausmaß der verdeckten Armut wurde mit Hilfe eines am IAB entwickelten Mikrosimulationsmodells untersucht. Als … Datenbasis wurde die Einkommens- und Verbrauchsstichprobe 2008 verwendet. Die im Rahmen dieses Beitrags simulierten Quoten der … verdeckten Armut. Die Ergebnisse der Simulationsrechnungen deuten dennoch darauf hin, dass auch nach der Umsetzung der Hartz …

and the prevalence of in-work poverty. We compare two relative measures of in-work poverty: The individual definition … show a positive relationship between involuntary part-time work and in-work poverty according to the household definition …