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Language: English

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Title: In-Work Poverty in Europe: Vulnerable and Under-Represented Persons in a Comparative Perspective (Bulletin of Comparative Labour Relations)
Publisher: Wolters Kluwer
Publication year: 2022
Condition: New
Binding: Soft cover
Language: English
ISBN 10: 9403549963
ISBN 13: 9789403549965
Item weight: 719 grams

In-work poverty is a reality for too many persons in the European Union (EU). Although everyone is in agreement that poverty must be reduced, rarely is there a specific focus on the plight of those who, despite working, are poor. This important book is the first to unreservedly meet the challenge of defining, measuring, and comparing the legal regimes to combat in-work poverty in Europe, fully attending to the strengths and shortcomings of indicators and allowing the assessment of comparative best practices among the Member States.

The distinguished contributors each describe and analyse this complex and multidimensional phenomenon, with its manifold and intertwined causes, in relation to such factors as the following:

employment-related factors (wage, type of contract, atypical employment);
worker’s socio-demographic characteristics (level of education, gender, age, country of birth);
size and composition of household;
household work intensity; and
institutional factors (childcare, flexible work arrangements, employment protection, housing, technological change).

In a major innovation, the book’s methodology approaches the ‘working poor’ by distinctly defining four groups of vulnerable and under-represented persons (VUPs) with detailed statistical information on in-work poverty in each group.

Following an in-depth introduction focusing on the definition and ramifications of the concept of in-work poverty – including a discussion of legal scholarship and relevant EU instruments – the situations in seven EU Mem

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