Hanging in, but only just: Part-time employment and in-work poverty through the crisis

Brian Nolan, Ive Marx and Jeroen Horemans

INET Oxford Working Papers from Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford

Abstract: The crisis has deepened pre-existing concerns regarding low wage and non-standard employment. Countries where unemployment increased most strongly during the crisis period also saw part-time employment increasing, particularly involuntary part-time work. With involuntary part-time workers, as a particular group of underemployed, facing especially high poverty rates, this was accompanied by an increase, on average, in the poverty risk associated with working part-time. However, this was not reflected in a marked increase in the overall in-work poverty rate because full-time work remains dominant and its poverty risk did not change markedly. The household context is of the essence when considering policy implications.

Keywords: In-work poverty; part-time employment; involuntary part-time employment; crisis; Europe (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I32 I38 J21 J22 J68 R28 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 30 pages
Date: 2015-12
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