Handbook on in-work poverty. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Henning Lohmann, Ive Marx.
• Editors: Lohmann, Henning; Marx, Ive
• Contents: Contents: 1. Introduction Henning Lohmann and Ive Marx 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, Scott R. Sanders and Daniel T. Lichter 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 policies 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 Horemans 16. The international political economy of the working poor in Western Europe Lucia Pradella PART IV EUROPE AND THE US 17. Labor market flexibilization, and in-work poverty: A comparative analysis of Germany, Austria and Switzerland Nina-Sophie Fritsch and Roland Verwiebe 18. In-work poverty in Southern Europe: The case of Italy Paolo Barbieri, Giorgio Cutuli and Stefani Scherer 19. In-work Poverty 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 Barrientos 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.
• Publisher Details: Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 331; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Policy; Working poor -- Handbooks, manuals, etc; Globalization -- Economic aspects; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations; Globalization -- Economic aspects; Working poor; Poverty & unemployment; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Poverty & Homelessness; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Reference; Sociology: work & labour; Reference works; Electronic books; Electronic books; Handbooks and manuals
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781784715632; 1784715638
• Related ISBNs: 9781784715625
• Notes: Note: Vendor-supplied metadata.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.