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Timenet assistenza3/30/2023 The study covers people on low wages, or low earnings in the case of self-employed persons. Equally, a person can earn a very low wage but not be at risk of poverty because the income of other household members is sufficient to raise the overall household income above the poverty threshold. Accordingly, if persons are at risk of poverty, this may not be simply because they have low wages but because their wages are insufficient to maintain the income of the household in which they live at a certain level. Income is measured in relation to the household in which a person lives and covers the income of all household members, which is shared equally among them after being adjusted for household size and composition. ‘Employed’ is defined here as being in work for over half of the year and ‘risk of poverty’ is defined as having an income below 60% of the national median. The expressions ‘working poor’ and ‘in-work poverty’ are thus used interchangeably. Therefore, the working poor are those who are employed and whose disposable income puts them at risk of poverty. To investigate the effect of the current economic recession on the scale of in-work poverty.įor the purpose of the study, the working poor are defined in the same way as the indicator used by the European Commission to assess and monitor in-work poverty. To consider the views of social partners towards the working poor To examine policies in place to tackle the problem of people in work on low levels of income and any assessments which have been carried out into the effectiveness of such policies To obtain an insight into the extent of in-work poverty in different European countries and the characteristics of those affected The aim of the comparative analytical report is fourfold: The ‘ working poor’ are a section of the population that is difficult to define not only due to a lack of specific data but also because the concept combines two levels of analysis: the working status of individuals and the wages that they earn from employment (individual level), and the extent to which they have a poverty-level of income within the household context (collective level). Increasing attention is given to both absolute and relative poverty, the former because of the poor productivity performance in Italy since the mid 1990s, the latter because of the poor impact of redistributive policies. Consequently, studies and statistics on in-work poverty are scarce. The poverty issue is usually considered from a redistributive point of view in Italy and therefore treated by taking households as the reference unit. The content is the responsibility of the authors. Disclaimer: This information is made available as a service to the public but has not been edited or approved by the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions.
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