To What Extent Is a Transition into Employment Associated with an Exit from Poverty?
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Authors:
Galloway, Taryn Ann
Year:
2004
Reference:
Memorandum
Number in series: 1
Summary
A link between lack of employment and poverty is often made implicitly, but can rarely be enumerated in any sort of satisfactory manner. We would therefore like to ask the question: to what extent does acquiring employment increase a poor household’s probability of exiting poverty? Register data from the entire resident population of Norway serves as the basis for the analysis. We distinguish between full-time and part-time employment and also include an investigation into the effect transfers have on the probability of exiting poverty, with or without a concurrent change in employment status. Norway with its generous social welfare system and well-functioning labor markets provides a unique opportunity to abstract to a certain extent from many complicating factors in investigating these questions.
JEL:
I 32, J20
Keywords:
Unemployment, Employment, Poverty
Project:
Oppdragsgiver: AAD, InntektsavdelingenOppdragsgivers prosjektnr.:
Frisch prosjekt: 1313 - The distribution and mobility of income
Financing:
Norges forskningsråd
