Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/192364 
Year of Publication: 
2004
Series/Report no.: 
Discussion Papers No. 382
Publisher: 
Statistics Norway, Research Department, Oslo
Abstract: 
A link between lack of employment and poverty is often made implicitly, but can be difficult to enumerate in a satisfactory manner. We would therefore like to ask the question: to what extent does acquiring employment increase a poor household's probability of exiting poverty? Register data from the entire resident population of Norway serves as the basis for this analysis, which indicates that full-time does greatly increase the probability of exiting poverty. Part-time employment also has an effect, albeit a small one. Findings with respect to transfers are compatible with certain disincentives related to employment for single mothers, although similar results cannot be found for other types of households.
Subjects: 
Unemployment
Employment
Poverty
JEL: 
I32
J20
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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