Flying to Mars and Venus - the gendered nature of in-work poverty in Europe

Anna-Magdalena Schwarz

No 348, Department of Economics Working Paper Series from WU Vienna University of Economics and Business

Abstract: This paper addresses the invisibility of women in in-work poverty research by analyzing the Eurostat in-work poverty indicator in combination with a novel individualized in-work poverty indicator. The latter relies on individual income, but still accounts for the household in defining the poverty threshold. I show that men are more often in-work poor due to assumed sharing with other household members, while women are mostly individually poor, but lifted out of poverty on the household level. The latter is not captured by the Eurostat indicator. This seems to be driven by household dynamics. Living with children makes women more financially dependent on their partner- increases individualized in-work poverty-, which in turn increases the burden on men's income - increases Eurostat in-work poverty. This pattern is most prevalent in countries with a stronger gender division of labor. My results uncover the blind spots in in-work poverty measurement and additionally highlight the potential of using the individualized indicator to measure financial dependency within the household.

Keywords: poverty measurement; gender; intra-household inequality; in-work poverty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023-09
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