Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Title: Hanging in, but only just: Part-time employment and in-work poverty through the crisis
Abstract: The crisis has deepened pre-existing concerns regarding low wage and non-standard employment. Countries where unemployment increased most strongly during the crisis period also saw part-time employment increasing, particularly involuntary part-time work. With involuntary part-time workers, as a particular group of underemployed, facing especially high poverty rates, this was accompanied by an increase, on average, in the poverty risk associated with working part-time. However, this was not reflected in a marked increase in the overall in-work poverty rate because full-time work remains dominant and its poverty risk did not change markedly. The household context is of the essence when considering policy implications.
Author-Name: Nolan, Brian
Author-Name: Marx, Ive
Author-Name: Horemans, Jeroen
File-URL: https://oms-inet.files.svdcdn.com/production/files/WP4.pdf
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Keywords: In-work poverty, part-time employment, involuntary part-time employment, crisis, Europe
Length: 30 pages
Classification-Jel: I32,	I38,	J21, J22, J68,	R28
Creation-Date: 2015-12
Handle: RePEc:amz:wpaper:2015-04