Can higher employment levels bring down relative income poverty in the EU? Regression-based simulations of the Europe 2020 target

Journal of European Social Policy

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 472-486

  Marx, Ive ^a   Vandenbroucke, Pieter ^a   Verbist, Gerlinde ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

employment; Europe 2020; low wages; poverty; simulation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EMPLOYMENT; EUROPEAN UNION; INCOME; POVERTY; PROBABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WAGE;

EUROPE;

EID: 84871493020     PISSN: 09589287     EISSN: 14617269     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0958928712456577     Document Type: Article

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