TY  - JOUR
A1  - Brülle, Jan
A1  - Gangl, Markus
A1  - Levanon, Asaf
A1  - Saburov, Evgeny
T1  - Changing labour market risks in the service economy: low wages, part-time employment and the trend in working poverty risks in Germany
T2  - Journal of European Social Policy
N2  - The article presents an analysis of the development of labour market risks in Germany in light of changing working poverty risks. Low hourly wages and part-time employment are identified as the main demand-side-related mechanisms for household poverty. Their measurement and development are discussed as well as their contribution to trends in working poverty risks. A rise in low wages, especially among part-time employed households, was decisive for the increase in working poverty risks in Germany by 45% between the end of the 1990s and the end of the 2000s. We therefore study these trends more closely in the multivariate analysis. The results show that while low wages are unequally distributed across occupations and industries, shifts in employment between sectors explain only a minor part of the change in low wages. However, they reveal a polarization of low-wage risks by skill-level and sector of employment, on the one hand, and full-time and part-time employees, on the other hand.
KW  - In-work poverty
KW  - low-wage
KW  - part-time employment
KW  - industry sector
KW  - skill-level
Y1  - 2018
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/53471
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-534712
SN  - 0958-9287
SN  - 1461-7269
VL  - 29
IS  - 1
SP  - 115
EP  - 129
PB  - Sage
CY  - London
ER  -