The Mexican experience in reducing child labour: empirical evidence and policy lessons
Mexico has witnessed dramatic progress towards eliminating child labour and achieving universal basic school enrolment during recent years. In the decade beginning in 2000, the proportion of 12-14 year-olds in employment fell by over 40 percent and that of 15-17 year-olds in employment declined by 30 percent. This progress notwithstanding, child labour has not yet been eliminated in Mexico: an estimated 870,000 children aged 6-13 years are still in employment in the country. What were the factors underlying the country’s important progress to date? Was it driven primarily by policy? And, if so, which policies were most influential? Or, alternatively, was the progress more a product of demographic trends, or of broader changes in the Mexican economy and labour market? The current report takes up these questions in an attempt to draw concrete policy lessons from the Mexican experience applicable for reaching the goal of eliminating child labour both in Mexico and elsewhere. The report looks first at most recent data relating to the total extent and characteristics of child labour in Mexico, drawing on data from the 2011 Modulo Infantil de Trabajo (MTI) survey. It then looks in detail at trends in child labour and schooling over the 2000-2010 period and at the factors driving these trends, using data from the Encuesta Nacional de Empleo (ENE) and Nacional de Ocupacion y Empleo (ENOE) survey programmes.
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2012-09
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Authors: | UCW |
Institutions: | Inter-Agency Research Cooperation Project: Understanding Children's Work and Its Impact (UCW) |
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