confidence in our methodology. We utilised the framework to model changes in the level of income inequality from the period just …, we found that income inequality fell in the early part of the crisis modelled in this paper. Much of this change was due … to rising inequality of market incomes, (even when discounting unemployment). This was due to the differential effect of …

part-time work. With involuntary part-time workers, as a particular group of underemployed, facing especially high poverty … rates, this was accompanied by an increase, on average, in the poverty risk associated with working part-time. However, this … was not reflected in a marked increase in the overall in-work poverty rate because full-time work remains dominant and its …