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WORK AND POVERTY - THE PHENOMENON OF WORKING POOR IN THE EUROPEAN UNION
Katarzyna CYMBRANOWICZ1
Economic Challenges of Modern Transformations
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 1-2 (92-93) 2017, Publication date: 23 May 2017
Keywords: working poor, labour market, work, poverty, European Union
Abstract The article discusses the working poor phenomenon. This phenomenon is associated with on the one hand – with the labor market, on the other - with poverty. It is an interesting object of study, because now in the European Union more and more people even though it is included in the basic social institution, which is the labor market, while it is threatened by poverty. The aim of this study was to show the relationship between the work and the problem of poverty in the context of the phenomenon of working poor, and in the analysis and evaluation focused on determining the level and structure of the working poor in the European Union.
Katedra Europejskiej Integracji Gospodarczej, Wydział Ekonomii i Stosunków Międzynarodowych,Uniwersytet Ekonomiczny w Krakowie
E-mail: cymbrank@uek.krakow.pl