previous oecd work has shown that access to a job is a major factor limiting the risk of poverty but being employed per se is often not sufficient to escape poverty while the poverty rate among jobless households is more than double the rate observed among working households there are also significant inwork poverty risks in many countries indeed of individuals living in households with at least one worker are poor in the oecd and the working poor comprise more than of all the poor individuals of working age oecd a to address this issue a conventional poverty threshold is used with of the median equivalised household disposable income the analysis presents the proportion of households falling below the poverty line for various household work types figure