Poor workers in rich democracies: on the nature of in-work poverty and its relationship to labour market policies

Hick, Rod ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1218-0809 and Marx, Ive 2022. Poor workers in rich democracies: on the nature of in-work poverty and its relationship to labour market policies. IZA Institute of Labor Economics. Available at: https://www.iza.org/publications/dp/15163/poor-wor...

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Abstract

The working poor were long thought of as people toiling away in lousy, under-protected and underpaid jobs in places like fast-food joints, supermarkets, hotels and bars. The perfidious consequence of that perception was that in-work poverty was seen as a non-issue in countries with extensive labour protections, especially in countries with minimum wages at significant levels. The idea that the working poor were only to be found in the so-called "liberal" economies lacking strongly organized labour and proper regulatory correction has turned out to be completely wrong. In-work poverty exists in all rich economies. But what, exactly, do we mean by in-work poverty? How is it related to labour market trends and also to policies? And how might governments look to successfully tackle the problem of working poverty? In this paper, a draft chapter forthcoming in Clegg, D. and Durazzi, N. (eds), Research Handbook of Labour Market Policy in Rich Democracies, with Edward Elgar we provide some answers to these important questions.

Item Type:	Monograph (UNSPECIFIED)
Date Type:	Published Online
Status:	Published
Schools:	Schools > Social Sciences (Includes Criminology and Education)
Publisher:	IZA Institute of Labor Economics
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	21 April 2022
Date of Acceptance:	25 March 2022
Last Modified:	10 Nov 2022 11:06
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/149251

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