Handbook on In-Work Poverty

Edited by Henning Lohmann, University of Hamburg, Germany and Ive Marx, Professor of Socio-Economic Policy and Director of the Centre for Social Policy Herman Deleeck, Antwerp University, Belgium

• Contents:1. IntroductionHenning Lohmann and Ive MarxPART I GENERAL PERSPECTIVES2. The concept and measurement of in-work povertyHenning Lohmann 3. Low earnings and their drivers in relation to in-work povertyWiemer Salverda4. Explaining cross-country differences in in-work povertyHenning Lohmann and Eric Crettaz5. Gender and in-work povertySophie Ponthieux6. In-work poverty among migrantsEric CrettazPART II INDIVIDUAL AND HOUSEHOLD PERSPECTIVES ON IN-WORK POVERTY7. Demographic drivers of in-work povertyBrian C. Thiede, Scott R. Sanders and Daniel T. Lichter 8. Low pay, in-work poverty and economic vulnerabilityBertrand Maître, Brian Nolan and Christopher T. Whelan9. Atypical employment and in-work povertyJeroen Horemans10. Single-parent families and in-work povertyRense Nieuwenhuis and Laurie C. Maldonado11. The dynamics of in-work povertyLeen Vandecasteele and Marco GiesselmannPART III POLICIES AND INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK12. Income support policies for the working poorSarah Marchal, Ive Marx and Gerlinde Verbist13. Impacts of the living wage on in-work povertyAmy Horton and Jane Wills14. Activation and in-work povertyDaniel Seikel and Dorothee Spannagel15. Childcare policies and in-work povertyWim van Lancker and Jeroen Horemans16. The international political economy of the working poor in Western EuropeLucia PradellaPART IV EUROPE AND THE US17. Labor market flexibilization, and in-work poverty: A comparative analysis of Germany, Austria and SwitzerlandNina-Sophie Fritsch and Roland Verwiebe18. In-work poverty in Southern Europe: The case of ItalyPaolo Barbieri, Giorgio Cutuli and Stefani Scherer19. In-work Poverty in the United StatesLane Kenworthy and Ive MarxPART V LATIN AMERICA, SOUTH AFRICA AND ASIA20. In-work poverty and social assistance in developing countriesArmando Barrientos and Vidhya Unnikrishnan21. In-work poverty in Latin America: Prevalence, driving forces and trendsRoxana Maurizio22. The working poor in Chile during the period 1990-2013Luis Maldonado, Joaquin Prieto and Juan Carlos Feres23. In-work poverty in South Africa: The impact of income sharing in the presence of high unemploymentKezia Lilenstein, Ingrid Woolard and Murray Leibbrandt24. Changes in the demographic antecedents of poverty among workers in Israel, 1991-2011Asaf Levanon and Evgeny Saburov25. In-work poverty in three East Asian welfare statesChung-Yang Yeh and Jen-Der Lue26. Working poor in the informal economy: Material deprivation among female sex workers in IndiaDavid Brady, Sharon Oselin and Kim M. BlankenshipIndex

'A handbook on ''in-work poverty'' research is long overdue. Here we have a very complete and compelling review of the policy connections between work and low-income status from a world-class set of contributors. The volume manages to touch on almost all of the key issues related to the world-wide adoption of in-work anti-poverty policies and how they interact with institution, families and society. Bravo!' --Timothy M. Smeeding, University of Wisconsin-Madison, US