2013 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
The Working Poor
Author : Ekaterina Kalugina
Published in: Growing Income Inequalities
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
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The working poor are individuals who work and who live in poor households. This hybrid, two-level definition — individual for labour market activity and household for the poverty status — complicates both the analysis and interpretation of this phenomenon (Peña-Casas and Latta, 2004; Ponthieux, 2010).