Low Pay, In-Work Poverty and Economic Vulnerability: A Comparative Aanalysis Using EU-SILC

Bertrand Maitre, Brian Nolan, Christopher T. Whelan

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    Abstract

    We explore the potential of data from EU-SILC (Statistics on Income and Living Conditions) for the enlarged European Union for the study of low pay and its relationship to household poverty and vulnerability. Limitations of the earnings data currently available mean the analysis covers only 14 of these countries. For employees who are not low paid, income poverty is seen to be rare. The low paid face a much higher risk of being in a household below relative income poverty thresholds, ranging from 7 per cent in Belgium and the Netherlands up to 1718 per cent in Austria, Estonia and Lithuania. The likelihood of their being in a poor household is clearly linked to gender, age and social class. In most of the countries only a minority of low-paid individuals are in vulnerable households.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)99-116
    Number of pages18
    JournalManchester School
    Volume80
    Issue number1
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - Jan 2012

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Economics and Econometrics

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