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Hanging in, but only just: part-time employment and in-work poverty throughout the crisis

Horemans, Jeroen; Marx, Ive; Nolan, Brian - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 5 (2016) 5, pp. 1-19

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 …

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Crisis, response and distributional impact : the case of Ireland

Callan, Tim; Nolan, Brian; Keane, Claire; Savage, Michael; … - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 3 (2014) 9, pp. 1-17

Ireland is one of the countries most severely affected by the Great Recession. National income fell by more than 10 per cent between 2007 and 2012, as a result of the bursting of a remarkable property bubble, an exceptionally severe banking crisis, and deep fiscal adjustment. This paper examines...

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Testing the tunnel effect : comparison, age and happiness in UK and German panels

FitzRoy, Felix R.; Nolan, Michael A.; Steinhardt, Max … - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 3 (2014) 24, pp. 1-30

In contrast to previous results combining all ages, we find positive effects of comparison income on happiness for the under 45s and negative effects for those over 45. In the UK, these coefficients are several times the magnitude of own income effects. In West Germany, they cancel out to give...

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