The Working Poor: Lousy Jobs or Lazy Workers?

Marlene Kim
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Marlene Kim: The Jerome Levy Economics Institute

Macroeconomics from University Library of Munich, Germany

Abstract: This paper investigates the argument that the working poor are poor because they work too few hours. I find that although working additional hours reduces the chance of poverty, most of full-time and year-round, due to the low wages they receive. In addition, of those who could climb out of poverty by working year-round, many are unable to do so, due to disability, age, or poor who could potentially escape poverty by working 40 hours per week, 52 weeks per year.

JEL-codes: E (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 25 pages
Date: 1997-12-09
Note: Type of Document - Acrobat PDF; prepared on IBM PC; to print on PostScript; pages: 25; figures: included
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