Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/263379 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 15163
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
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.
Subjects: 
low pay
poverty
labour market policies
JEL: 
J08
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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