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Author: | Lohmann, H. |
Title: | Welfare states, labour market institutions and the working poor: A comparative analysis of 20 European countries |
Journal: | European sociological review
2009 : AUG, VOL. 25:4, p. 489-504 |
Index terms: | labour markets institutions welfare state subsidies workers poverty sociology Europe models |
Language: | eng |
Abstract: | Combining a micro- and a macro-level perspective in two-level models, this article deals with the incidence of in-work poverty and how it is reduced by the payment of social transfers in 20 European countries. The analysis is based on micro-data from the European Union (EU) Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) 2005 and macro-data from sources e.g. the OECD and Eurostat. Contrary to previous studies on the working poor mainly describing country differences in in-work poverty, this study's focus is on the question of how such differences can be explained from a broader perspective of poverty research. In general, the results confirm the overall hypothesis of both welfare state measures and labour market institutions having an influence on in-work poverty etc. |
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