In-Work Poverty Persistence: The Infl uence of Past Poverty on the Present

Abstract

This dynamic study of poverty offers results that could not have been
attained with a cross-cutting approach. In this article, we examine the
causes leading individuals to remain in situations of working poverty.
The main objective is to analyze the probability of remaining in poverty
from one year to another, attempting to determine if it is individual
characteristics or the previous poverty experiences that determine the
probability of suffering from working poverty. The results reveal that
individuals experiencing working poverty at a certain time have greater
probabilities of experiencing it in the future, thereby detecting a
dependency of status mechanism. However, there are also certain
specifi c characteristics related to working poverty: those associated
with the home or with the receipt of low salaries.