This article explores the determinants of working poverty in the European Union. At the individual and household level …, the factors contributing to working poverty differ in importance across countries. Nonetheless, being a lone parent … risk factors. Low pay, under-employment and family structures combine to explain working poverty. At the national level …

changes on employment, prices, consumption, and poverty. …

changes on employment, prices, consumption, and poverty. …

The analysis presented in this paper considers the impact on poverty rates of the Labour government’s tax and benefit … NMW to direct poverty reduction and to “making work pay”. It concludes that the main contribution made by the NMW to … poverty reduction at the household level is probably through its role in underpinning the operation of in-work top-up benefits. …

I discuss recent books offering differing explanations for persistent U.S. poverty. Desmond (2023) argues that aid to …

In this paper we analyze the evolution and the determinants of in-work poverty in Poland, according to three poverty … lines: relative, absolute, and the 1998-adjusted poverty line. We find that behind moderately high in-work poverty incidence … in Poland there is very high in-work poverty in agriculture and modest in-work poverty in all other sectors. Workers are …