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This study examines the relationship between parental time poverty, child work, and schoolattendance in Ghana using … data from the sixth and seventh rounds of the Ghana Living StandardSurvey (GLSS6 and GLSS7). Results of the analysis …,parental time poverty increases children’s walking hours to and from school and private schoolenrolment. We observed heterogeneity …
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In Ghana children from poor households are far more likely to engage in child labor activities than are children from … poverty and child labor has traditionally been regarded as well established. But recent research has questioned the validity … of this link, claiming that poverty is not a main determinant of child labor. Starting from the premise that child labor …
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underlying harmful child labor in Ghana across gender, across rural/urban location as well as across poverty quintiles of …The link between poverty and child labor has traditionally been regarded a well established fact. Recent research …, however, has questioned the validity of this link, claiming that poverty is not a main determinant of child labor. Starting …
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Considering that it is imperative to provide reliable, comprehensive and timely data that serve as a basis to determine the priorities of national and sub-national action aimed at the prevention and elimination of child labour, the ILO Regional Office for the Americas promoted an alliance with...
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This article clarifies and quantifies the causal impact of climate change vulnerability on child labour incidence and intensity. For this purpose, we create an index of vulnerability to climate change, composed of biophysical vulnerability and communities' resilience. Both, participation to...
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The possible non linearity of the income elasticity of child labour has been at the centre of the debate regarding both its causes and the policy instruments to address it. We contribute to this debate providing theoretical and empirical novel results. From a theoretical point of view, for any...
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