Ive Marx

Ive Marx is Professor at the University of Antwerp and Director of the Centre for Social Policy Herman Deleeck. He served as Chair of the Department of Sociology from 2012 until 2018. He is chair of the interdisciplinary Bachelor and Master Programme in Socio-Economic Sciences.
Ive Marx took degrees in Political and Social Sciences and in Economics. He directs research on minimum income protection and poverty, especially in relation to labour market change and migration at the Herman Deleeck Centre for Social Policy. He is a Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor IZA in Bonn.
He was involved in the European Low Wage Research Network (LoWER), the EQUALSOC Network of Excellence, FP7 projects GINI and IMPROVE, in the last two in coordinating capacities.
His main research interest is labour market and welfare state change in relation to the distribution of income, with a particular focus on poverty. He has published extensively on the issue of in-work poverty and minimum income protection with Oxford University Press, Palgrave, Routledge, Edward Elgar and other international publishers. Journal articles have appeared in International Labour Review, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Social Policy, European Journal of Industrial Relations, Journal of Common Market Studies, International Journal of Comparative Sociology, Ethical Perspectives, European Journal of Social Security, Journal of European Social Policy, Social Forces, European Sociological Review, etc.
He sits on the editorial boards of Social Forces, Journal of Social Policy, Social Inclusion and European Policy Analysis.
He is also a member of the board of Espanet, Europe's leading network of social policy researchers.
He is a columnist for Belgium's main broadsheet De Standaard.
Recent additions include:
He has acted as a consultant for the European Commission and the OECD in various capacities and also for the ILO, the World Bank, and other organisations.
The volume 'Minimum Income Protection in Flux', co-edited with Kenneth Nelson (SOFI) has appeared in Palgrave Macmillan's Work and Welfare Series in 2013.
'This book surely deserves an award for its timeliness - and also for its scholarly qualities. It offers a coverage of the key issues related to minimum income protection policies that is simply unmatched, be it in terms of thoroughness, reach or depth: a must-read contribution for anyone working in the social policy field.' - Gosta Esping-Andersen, Professor of Sociology at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
'Significant work providing a rich overview of minimum income systems, highly relevant to the current and future EU social policy debate.' - László Andor, Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion, Belgium
'We live in a world with ever-increasing inequality in rich European and Anglo -Saxon nations. The minimum income question – the basic right of all persons, especially vulnerable ones like children and the elderly, to sufficient resources to live in a manner compatible with human dignity – takes on new importance in such a world. I urge all who are interested in poverty and inequality, especially policy makers and advocates, to read Marx and Nelson for a refreshing, sobering and important take on the minimum income question.' - Timothy M. Smeeding, Director for the Institute for Research on Poverty and A & S Distinguished Professor of Public Affairs and Economics at the Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs, USA
'This volume provides the most authoritative comparative analysis of policy developments in the realm of minimum income rotection available today. Based on unique up-to-date institutional data and rigorous analyses, it yields new insights and is essential reading for all who care about changing welfare states.' - Walter Korpi, Professor of Social Policy, Stockholm University, Sweden
He is co-editor of a two volume book on changing inequalities and societal impacts published with Oxford University Press . The two volumes contain the main results of the FP7 GINI Project.
Changing Inequalities and Societal Impacts in Rich Countries: Thirty Countries' Experiences
Changing Inequalities in Rich CountriesAnalytical and Comparative Perspectives
Together with Brian Nolan and Javier Olivera he wrote the chapter on The Welfare State and Anti-Poverty Policy, in A.B Atkinson and F. Bourguignon Handbook of Income distribution. Elsevier/North Holland, published as IZA DP8154 .
Together with Henning Lohmann he has edited The Handbook of In-Work Poverty, published with Edward Elgar (2018).
A handbook on ‘in-work poverty’ research is long overdue. Here we have a very complete and compelling review of the policy connections between work and low income status from a world class set of contributors. The volume manages to touch on almost all of the key issues related to the world-wide adoption of in-work anti-poverty policies and how they interact with institution, families and society. Bravo!’
– Timothy M. Smeeding, University of Wisconsin-Madison, US