Welfare states, labour market institutions and the working poor. A comparative analysis of 20 European countries.

Autor/in	Lohmann, Henning
Titel	Welfare states, labour market institutions and the working poor. A comparative analysis of 20 European countries. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Wohlfahrtsstaaten, Arbeitsmarktinstitutionen und Working Poor.
Quelle	In: European sociological review, 25 (2009) 4, S. 489-504Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0266-7215; 1468-2672
DOI	10.1093/esr/jcn064
Schlagwörter	Mehrebenenanalyse; Familienpolitik; Armut; Sozialpolitik; Wohlfahrtsstaat; Lohnpolitik; Niedriglohn; Erwerbstätiger; Internationaler Vergleich; Institution; Europäische Union
Abstract	"This paper regards the incidence of in-work poverty and how it is reduced by the payment of social transfers in 20 European countries. It combines a micro- and a macro-level perspective in two-level models. The basis for the analysis is micro-data from the EU Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) 2005 and macro-data from sources such as the OECD and Eurostat. The broad comparative perspective allows for a separation of different institutional influences, namely the influence of the degree of decommodification, defamilisation and bargaining centralisation. In contrast to previous studies on the working poor which have mainly described country differences in in-work poverty, this paper focuses on the question of how such differences can be ex-plained from a broader perspective of poverty research. In general, the results confirm the overall hypothesis that both welfare state measures and labour market institutions have an influence on in-work poverty. By analysing influences on pre-transfer poverty and poverty reduction separately, I show that such factors have varied effects on in-work poverty. While bargaining centralisation proves to be relevant for the distribution of pre-transfer incomes only, the setup of the social security system in particular impacts the extent of poverty reduction." Die Untersuchung enthält quantitative Daten. Forschungsmethode: empirisch-quantitativ; empirisch; Querschnitt. Die Untersuchung bezieht sich auf den Zeitraum 2005 bis 2005. (author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2010/4