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Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium

ABSTRACT

In-work poverty seems to be a kind of “invisible poverty”, which is closely related to the social risk and particularly lurks among working-age population. It de facto brings out the problematical aspects of economic and social secured conditions among individuals who are “in-work”. In the labor market, describing and discussing the main working poor groups reveals the issue of in-work poverty. Based on this, working poor refer to the people who have a decent job but fall under the poverty threshold and have high risk into the condition of insecure and poor working/living quality. Internationally, the bulk of literature on in-work poverty comes from developed countries. However, the Asia-related research on in-work poverty remains underexplored. Thereby, the research describes a vivid picture of working poor in mainland China, makes a general definition and also, investigates that what kind of working groups in mainland China are suffering from high risk into poverty. The attempts will be made to distinguish the main in-work poverty groups with their trajectory historically under the labor market transformation and the economic reform. The research aims at a better understanding of poverty issue in the labor market underlying the life course and gender dimension.

KEYWORDS

working poor, China, migrant workers, laid-off workers, gender, life course

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Journal of US-China Public Administration, February 2017, Vol. 14, No. 2, 91-99

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