however in three countries cyprus luxembourg and spain transitions from no employee income at all to at least some employee income are positively associated with falling into poverty although these effects are not very precisely estimated p and there are very few households with zero employee income at time who are not poor and are still at risk of entering poverty seetable pages and this suggests that moving into employment everything else being equal does not always protect from poverty compared to the risk in households where the same number of adults work in both years children in households where fewer adults work at t are more likely to move into poverty in belgium bulgaria estonia finland hungary luxembourg slovenia spain and the uk