Abstract
Seeks to identify the determinants of poverty in Bulgaria and to profile groups at risk of adverse labour-market outcomes. The author's methodology is based on a detailed consideration of income and non-income dimensions of poverty and perceptions of well-being at work. Examines the incidence of poverty in relation to personal, labour-market and household characteristics over the period 1995-2001. Though important to an individual's poverty status, labour-market circumstances tend merely to mitigate or worsen the dominant effect of family circumstances. Suggests that non-income dimensions of poverty, chiefly poor working conditions, pose an important policy challenge.