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Despite the fact that scholarly works pointed to certain labor market characteristics associated with in-work poverty, there has been little research conducted into exploring relationship between part-time employment and poverty risk in Europe using longitudinal research design. This aim of the study seeks to understand the relationship between part-time work and poverty in four European countries using a longitudinal data. The selected countries, namely, The Netherlands, Belgium, Ireland and Portugal feature labor market characteristics of different welfare state regimes. To shed some light on the issue, an integrated model using sample was built and tested using the European Community Household Panel (ECHP) with seven waves. A series of binary logistic regression models, controlling for initial poverty conditions, were performed. Results show that there is a sizable proportion of population risk in poverty in the four countries. Random-effect regression analyses show that part-time employment links with poverty risk after controlling for various household characteristics and health conditions both in the integrated model pool for all observations and in the individual European countries. Moreover, the present study makes a significant contribution in establishing connections between the various health conditions and poverty risk of among European citizens. With comparisons in the four European countries, this research confirms that various health factors positively associated with poverty risk in Portugal, but not in the other three countries. Implications for research and management in social policy and social service are discussed. Key words: Poverty, labor market characteristics, part-time work, integrated model, European countries