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Working But Poor A Cross-National Comparison of Earnings Adequacy

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  • Inge O'Connor
  • Timothy Smeeding

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Compares the ability of prime-age, able-bodied workers in the U.S., Canada, Sweden, Netherlands, and the U.K. to keep themselves and their households out of poverty by working. The authors find that although the probability of being poor is smaller in households in which the head works full-year, full-time a substantial portion of poor households are working poor in all five countries.

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  • Inge O'Connor & Timothy Smeeding, 1993. "Working But Poor A Cross-National Comparison of Earnings Adequacy," LIS Working papers 94, LIS Cross-National Data Center in Luxembourg.
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    1. Tony Eardley, 2000. "Working but Poor? Low Pay and Poverty in Australia," The Economic and Labour Relations Review, , vol. 11(2), pages 308-338, December.
    2. Michael F rster, 1994. "Family Poverty and the Labor Market," LIS Working papers 114, LIS Cross-National Data Center in Luxembourg.

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