'Reconciling Work and Poverty Reduction' examines the link between poverty and labor market participation and the distributive capacity of welfare states. Focusing on the working-age population and the evolutions in Europe during the 'good economic years' before the financial crisis, this book...

This paper examines the labor market trajectories of refugees who arrived in Belgium between 2003 and 2009. Belgium has offered relatively easy formal labor market access to refugees but they face many other barriers in its strongly regulated and institutionalized labor market. Using the Belgian...

The crisis has deepened pre-existing concerns regarding low-wage and non-standard employment. Countries where unemployment increased most strongly during the crisis period also saw part-time employment increasing, particularly involuntary part-time work. With involuntary part-time workers, as a...