Hours Constraints and In‐Work Poverty |
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| Authors: | Sarah Brown Stephen Pudney |
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| Affiliation: | Department of Economics, University of Leicester and;Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex |
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| Abstract: | We develop a new approach to modelling the impact of personal characteristics on the extent of poverty, using propensity score matching methods. This is used to evaluate the contribution of hours constraints to poverty, as revealed in UK and US datasets. The results reveal a significant difference, consistent with the existence of greater labour market flexibility in the US. |
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| Keywords: | hours constraints poverty propensity score matching |
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