What is it about?

How did poverty evolve among workers during the recession? Do conclusions depend on the indicators used, and how have various EU Member States been affected?

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Why is it important?

a) because much of the discussions on the Great Recession have focussed on unemployement, for obvious reasons; yet, much less has been said about those who managed to keep their job during the crisis, and b) because we have to better understand how the conclusions we draw are affected by the indicators of working poverty.

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This page is a summary of: Poverty and material deprivation among European workers in times of crisis, International Journal of Social Welfare, November 2014, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/ijsw.12132.
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