A state-of-the-art review of working poverty in advanced economies: theoretical models, measurement issues and risk groups

Crettaz, Eric

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“…Second, relative indicators of income poverty and indicators of material deprivation usually lead to diverging conclusions. However, the latter have hardly ever been used in the literature devoted to the working poor (Crettaz, 2013). The 'in-work poverty' indicator is not appropriate to understand how workers 'Working poverty' in the EU 08-12 Int J Soc Welfare 2015: 24: 312-323 are faring in countries badly hit by a recession.…”

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Poverty and material deprivation among European workers in times of crisis

Crettaz

2014

Int J Soc Welfare

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Many EU countries are faced with abysmal public debts and high unemployment, and may have to reduce their social expenditure and deregulate their labour market, which should lead to an increase in ‘working poverty’ (i.e., an increase in the number of working men and women who live in a low‐income household, or in a household that cannot afford certain goods and services considered essential for a decent life, respectively). However, working poverty remains an under‐analysed phenomenon in Europe. Moreover, the vast majority of existing definitions used in Europe are based on a relative income poverty line and the EU's official definition of ‘in‐work’, which raises concerns about the robustness of existing findings. This article first examines how the socioeconomic situation has evolved in seven EU Member States that have fared differently. In addition, the article examines whether the use of non‐monetary poverty indicators and of an encompassing definition of ‘working’ has an impact on the conclusions drawn. An attempt is made to identify the main macro‐level determinants of changes in ‘working poverty’ and to better understand their impact at the micro‐level.

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Poverty and material deprivation among European workers in times of crisis

Crettaz

2014

Int J Soc Welfare

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“…Some scholars do affirm that transfer policies can lead to more poverty as they guarantee some low level of income, under the poverty threshold, with the effect of pushing workers into atypical and low-wage jobs, the so-called poverty trap (Frazer and Marlier, 2010, p. 31;Fraser, 2011, p. 90). Yet this does not lead them to rethink their focus on the impact of welfare regimes in lessening IWP (Gazier, 2008;Crettaz, 2013). The study of the international dimension mainly consists of a comparison of welfare regimes and their capacities to mitigate the effects of labour markets, lifting households out of monetary poverty.…”

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“…Despite this trend, there has been relatively little policy and academic debate on IWP, with a few notable exceptions (Jenkins et al, 2012;Maître et al, 2012;Crettaz, 2013Crettaz, , 2014European Commission, 2014). The increasing number of people in work but living in poverty contradicts a fundamental premise of the 'European social model' -that employment protects individuals from povertyand epitomises one of the main consequences of neo-liberalism for workers.…”

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The working poor in Western Europe: Labour, poverty and global capitalism

Pradella

2015

Comp Eur Polit

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This article analyses the re-emergence of the working poor phenomenon in Western Europe. Critically engaging with comparative welfare regimes literature on in-work poverty (IWP), it argues that an international political economy (IPE) perspective is key to understanding the economic and international dimensions of IWP. By focusing on three countries belonging to different welfare regimes, namely Britain, Germany and Italy, the article examines the relationship between production restructuring, IWP trends and the nature of work, with particular attention to working-hour dynamics. It argues that the increasing IWP observed in these countries since the outbreak of the global economic crisis is linked to longterm trends in the IPE and to the growth of new competitors, mainly from emerging countries.

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“…However, the factor of low wages alone do not fully cause someone to be working poor, some other factors related to the demographics of individuals and household factors such as gender, education, race, type of work (parttime or full-time), live in the house a household with only one person earning wage/salary, or living in a household that has children [18], [19] is considered to be associated with a person's chance to become a poor worker. Low education limits one's choices for the type of work that can be taken, and is often associated with low status in employment so that the income received also tends to be low [20].…”

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Having a Job Is Not Enough to Escape Poverty: Case of Indonesian Working Poors

Ramadhani¹,

Putra²

2019

IJPS

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Abstract Having a job is apparently not enough to ensure that the person is able to make ends meet, because the problem of unemployment is actually not the main problem of eradicating poverty. Poor people do not have the privilege of not working, they inevitably have to work to earn income. But the income from the work they do is of low value, so it is unable to meet their needs, especially basic needs. About 8.25 percent of working population in Indonesia are working poor, meaning they work, but the income is not enough to meet the needs. Using 2018 National Socio Economic Survey (SUSENAS) data, this study tries to dissect the labor conditions in Indonesia. The working population is still dominated by workers with low education, and there are still many who work as family/unpaid workers showing as a form of inefficiency. The characteristics of poor workers in Indonesia are male, living in rural areas. Still in prime age range, but poorly educated, only at elementary school level or less. These characteristics at the individual level are closely related to the mechanism of low wages which makes a person more at risk of becoming a working poor.

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A state-of-the-art review of working poverty in advanced economies: theoretical models, measurement issues and risk groups

Cited by 81 publications

References 51 publications

Poverty and material deprivation among European workers in times of crisis

Poverty and material deprivation among European workers in times of crisis

The working poor in Western Europe: Labour, poverty and global capitalism

Having a Job Is Not Enough to Escape Poverty: Case of Indonesian Working Poors

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