The different faces of in-work poverty across welfare state regimes

The Working Poor in Europe: Employment, Poverty and Globalization

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 17-46

  Lohmann, Henning ^a   Marx, Ive ^b  

^a DIW BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

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