Table 3 Right words/Key terms in in-work poverty research (2000s-2017)
Concept over Time and space | Key descriptions | Specific context | |
|---|---|---|---|
2000s–2010s | US | (1) Lowest stratum of economic attainment (Shipler 2005); (2) Ending welfare as we know it (Duncan et al. 2007) | (1) Societal: sociodemographic structures (2) National: social welfare/social security |
Europe | (1) Emergence of in-work poverty and labour market segmentation (Smith et al. 2008); (2) Low pay (Cappellari 2002); (3) Poverty in earned income (Ponthieux 2010) | National: economic system (labour market) | |
2010s–2018 | US | (1) Low-income workers (Desmond and Gershenson 2016); at the bottom of the income distribution (Thiede et al. 2015); (2) Working, uninsured adults (Nolan and Christie 2017); (3) Working hard, working poor; a global journal (Fields 2012); (4) A booming demographic (Wicks-Lim 2012) | Societal: social protection system (housing insecure and employment, healthcare programme) |
Europe | (1) Re-emergence of working poor phenomenon in Western Europe (Pradella 2015); Widespread phenomenon, “hybrid” nature (Gautié and Ponthieux 2016); a “post-industrial” phenomenon (Marx and Nolan 2012); a pan-European phenomenon (Marx et al. 2012); (2) Low-wage jobs with poor working conditions and career opportunities (Ilsøe 2016) | (1) Global: international political economy (IPE) perspective. Cross-national perspective (2) National: economic sectors (low-wage service workers); social protection system | |
Colombia Brazil | Most vulnerable workers (Porras 2015); Disadvantaged economic classes (Escosteguy and Coutinho 2017) | Societal: socioeconomic inequality | |
Asia (Hong Kong, China) | An important category of poverty; low-paid work (Cheung and Chou 2016) | Societal: socioeconomic context | |