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To Work Oneself out of Poverty: The Dutch Experience 1989–96

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  • Jolanda Van Leeuwen
  • Jeroen Pannekoek

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This paper investigates the effect of finding work by one of the household members on the probability of escaping from poverty in the Netherlands. For households with non‐active heads, finding work by the head of the household is the most important (investigated) event connected with exiting poverty, nearly a third of all poverty endings. However, finding a job by the head of the household does not guarantee one leaving poverty. In practice, the success rate yields 25 percent. A multivariate analysis shows that finding a job by the head of the household increases the chance of leaving poverty with 22 percent points. So, some exits from poverty are a result of other factors or are due to selectivity of the job‐finders. This difference is much larger when partners or (adult) children find jobs.

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  • Jolanda Van Leeuwen & Jeroen Pannekoek, 2002. "To Work Oneself out of Poverty: The Dutch Experience 1989–96," Review of Income and Wealth, International Association for Research in Income and Wealth, vol. 48(1), pages 127-140, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:revinw:v:48:y:2002:i:1:p:127-140
    DOI: 10.1111/1475-4991.00043
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    1. Paul Frijters, 2000. "Persistencies in the Labor Market," Econometric Society World Congress 2000 Contributed Papers 1303, Econometric Society.
    2. Andriopoulou, Eirini & Tsakloglou, Panagiotis, 2011. "The determinants of poverty transitions in Europe and the role of duration dependence," MPRA Paper 30659, University Library of Munich, Germany.

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