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To Work Oneself out of Poverty: The Dutch Experience 1989–96
Author(s) -
Van Leeuwen Jolanda,
Pannekoek Jeroen
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
review of income and wealth
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.024
H-Index - 57
eISSN - 1475-4991
pISSN - 0034-6586
DOI - 10.1111/1475-4991.00043
Subject(s) - poverty , work (physics) , economics , demographic economics , labour economics , economic growth , engineering , mechanical engineering
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.