Handbook on in-work poverty / edited by Henning Lohmann, Ive Marx.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Lohmann, Henning, editor.

Marx, Ive, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poverty.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (528 pages)

Place of Publication:

Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2018.

Summary:

There has been a rapid global expansion of academic and policy attention focusing on in-work poverty, acknowledging that across the world a large number of the poor are 'working poor'. Taking a global and multi-disciplinary perspective, this Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of current research at the intersection between work and poverty. Authoritative contributions from leading researchers in the field provide comprehensive coverage of conceptual and measurement issues, causal drivers and mechanisms, key empirical findings, policy issues and debates. The Handbook is unique in offering perspectives from a wide range of regions and countries, stretching beyond developed countries. It also does justice to the paradigmatic diversity in approaches to in-work poverty, offering a wealth of variety in disciplinary approaches. Academically rigorous, yet clear and concise, this Handbook will benefit students and scholars of public policy, politics, social policy and development studies. It will also prove accessible for policy analysts and journalists looking to explore the issue from new angles.

Contents:

Contents: 1. Introduction / Ive Marx and Henning Lohmann

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, Dan T. Lichter and Scott R. Sanders

8. Low pay, in-work poverty and economic vulnerability / Bertrand Maître, 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 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 Horeman

16. The international political economy of the working poor / Lucia Pradella

Part IV

Europe and the US

17. Labor market flexibilization, welfare states and labor market institutions: a comparative analysis of Germany, Austria and Switzerland / Nina-Sophie Fritsch and Roland Verwiebe

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

19. Working poor 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 Barientos 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

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-78471-563-8