RT Journal Article
T1 Two crises, two policy responses in Spain? Poverty among working-age population in the Great Recession and Covid-19.
T2 Dos crisis, ¿dos respuestas de política en España? La pobreza entre la población en edad de trabajar durante la Gran Recesión y la Covid-19
A1 Tejero Pérez, Aroa
A1 López-Rodríguez, Fermín
A1 Gutiérrez, Rodolfo
K1 Pobreza
K1 Crisis económicas
K1 Renta
K1 Salarios
K1 Población activa
K1 Crac bursátil - 1929
K1 COVID-19 - Aspectos económicos
AB This study examines the poverty risk of the working-age population in Spain during the Great Recession and the Covid-19 pandemic, the two major recent economic crises that generated significant social impacts across Europe. The broad aim is to compare the likelihood of moderate and severe poverty in both downturns. To achieve this, the study pursues three specific goals: tracking how poverty evolved over time, identifying the risk profiles associated with each crisis, and analysing how the structure of household income, particularly access to social benefits and labour earnings, helps cushion the impact of adverse economic periods. The analysis draws on data from the Spanish sample of the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) for 2008–2020, which includes detailed information on personal and household income as well as socio-economic characteristics. The findings show that the Great Recession had a deeper and more persistent impact on poverty, especially severe poverty. In contrast, the Covid-19 crisis produced a faster but more short-lived increase in poverty, partly mitigated by policy measures such as furlough schemes and more flexible access to several social benefits. An increasingly relevant strategy to prevent economic vulnerability is the combination of employment with social transfers, along with the allocation of various benefits at the household level. Overall, the results emphasise the importance of designing social protection mechanisms that both align with labour-market opportunities and effectively target the most vulnerable groups within the working-age population
PB Bristol University Press
YR 2025
FD 2025-09-11
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/40883
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/40883
LA eng
NO Tejero, A., López-Rodríguez, F., and Gutiérrez, R. (2025). Two crises, two policy responses in Spain? Poverty among working-age population in the Great Recession and Covid-19. Journal of Poverty and Social Justice, 33(3), 324-346. https://doi.org/10.1332/17598273Y2025D000000050
NO https://openpolicyfinder.jisc.ac.uk/id/publication/14632
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 3 mar 2026