Doepke, Matthias; Krueger, Dirk - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
We investigate the positive and normative consequences of child-labor restrictions for economic aggregates and welfare … inefficiencies than the imposition of a child-labor ban. Given this finding, we investigate the potential political-economic reasons … behind the emergence and persistence of child-labor legislation. Our investigation is based on a structural dynamic general …