The New Working (Poor) Class. Self-Employment and In-Work Poverty in the EU: a Supranational Regulatory Strategy

Abstract

The paper aims to discuss the intersections between self-employment and in-work poverty in the EU. In the first part of the article, after an analysis of the polysemic concept of self-employment, the Author examines the self-employment/poor work dyad in the European Union. The second part of the paper deals with the possible answers to in work-poverty in terms of policies and regulatory options at EU level, considered in the framework of the overall aim of fighting poverty and social exclusion in the European Union.

Keywords

• in-work poverty
• self-employment
• minimum wage
• minimum income
• eu anti-poverty policies