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

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 in-work 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 specific characteristics related to in-work poverty: those associated with the home or with the receipt of low salaries