Handbook on In-Work Poverty

Contents:

1. Introduction
Henning Lohmann and Ive Marx

PART I GENERAL PERSPECTIVES
2. The concept and measurement of in-work poverty
Henning Lohmann

3. Low earnings and their drivers in relation to in-work poverty
Wiemer Salverda

4. Explaining cross-country differences in in-work poverty
Henning Lohmann and Eric Crettaz

5. Gender and in-work poverty
Sophie Ponthieux

6. In-work poverty among migrants
Eric Crettaz

PART II INDIVIDUAL AND HOUSEHOLD PERSPECTIVES ON IN-WORK POVERTY
7. Demographic drivers of in-work poverty
Brian C. Thiede, Scott R. Sanders and Daniel T. Lichter

8. Low pay, in-work poverty and economic vulnerability
Bertrand Maitre, Brian Nolan and Christopher T. Whelan

9. Atypical employment and in-work poverty
Jeroen Horemans

10. Single-parent families and in-work poverty
Rense Nieuwenhuis and Laurie C. Maldonado

11. The dynamics of in-work poverty
Leen Vandecasteele and Marco Giesselmann

PART III POLICIES AND INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK
12. Income support policies for the working poor
Sarah Marchal, Ive Marx and Gerlinde Verbist

13. Impacts of the living wage on in-work poverty
Amy Horton and Jane Wills

14. Activation and in-work poverty
Daniel Seikel and Dorothee Spannagel

15. Childcare policies and in-work poverty
Wim van Lancker and Jeroen Horemans

16. The international political economy of the working poor in Western Europe
Lucia Pradella

PART IV EUROPE AND THE US
17. Labor market flexibilization, and in-work poverty: A comparative analysis of Germany, Austria and Switzerland
Nina-Sophie Fritsch and Roland Verwiebe

18. In-work poverty in Southern Europe: The case of Italy
Paolo Barbieri, Giorgio Cutuli and Stefani Scherer

19. In-work Poverty in the United States
Lane Kenworthy and Ive Marx

PART V LATIN AMERICA, SOUTH AFRICA AND ASIA
20. In-work poverty and social assistance in developing countries
Armando Barrientos and Vidhya Unnikrishnan

21. In-work poverty in Latin America: Prevalence, driving forces and trends
Roxana Maurizio

22. The working poor in Chile during the period 1990-2013
Luis Maldonado, Joaquin Prieto and Juan Carlos Feres

23. In-work poverty in South Africa: The impact of income sharing in the presence of high unemployment
Kezia Lilenstein, Ingrid Woolard and Murray Leibbrandt

24. Changes in the demographic antecedents of poverty among workers in Israel, 1991-2011
Asaf Levanon and Evgeny Saburov

25. In-work poverty in three East Asian welfare states
Chung-Yang Yeh and Jen-Der Lue

26. Working poor in the informal economy: Material deprivation among female sex workers in India
David Brady, Sharon Oselin and Kim M. Blankenship

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• Sociologia: trabalho e mão de obra
• Pobreza e desemprego
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