Research and Statistics

In-work poverty: a systematic review

by Janice Tripney, Mark Newman, Mukdarut Bangpan, Amelia Hempel-Jorgensen, Marian Mackintosh, Helen Tucker and Jennifer Sinclair

This report presents the findings of a systematic review of the evidence base relating to working poor families with dependent children. The review aims to increase understanding of research in this area and produce findings that will help inform future policy and research. The systematic review was conducted in two stages.

The first stage described the research that has been undertaken on the barriers to, and facilitators of, reducing in-work poverty in families with dependent children. Stage two of the review involved a synthesis of a subset of these studies, focusing on the effectiveness of interventions with the potential to reduce working poverty in two-parent families.

February 2009 85 pages 297x210mm

ISBN 978 1 84712 466 1

 

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