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Does globalisation increase child labour?

Cigno, Alessandro; Rosati, Furio Camillo; Guarcello, Lorenzo - 2002

There is no empirical evidence that trade exposure per se increases child labour. As trade theory and household economics lead us to expect, the cross-country evidence seems to indicate that trade reduces or, at worst, has no significant effect on child labour. Consistently with the theory, a...

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International migration of couples

Junge, Martin; Munk, Martin D.; Poutvaara, Panu - 2014

. College education of either partner makes couples more, and having children makes couples less mobile. Power couples are most …

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The income elasticity of child labour : do cash transfers have an impact on the poorest children?

Pellerano, Luca; Porreca, Eleonora; Rosati, Furio Camillo - 2018

below which an increase in income has no impact on child labour and education. We estimate the causal impact of an increase … in income on child labour and education exploiting the random allocation of the Child Grant Programme, an unconditional …, while relatively less poor households reduce child labour and increase education. In policy terms, the results indicate that …

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Elementary facts about immigration in Italy : what do we know about immigration and its impact?

Mariani, Rama Dasi; Pasquini, Alessandra; Rosati, Furio … - 2020

The 2D:4D digit ratio, the ratio of the length of the 2nd digit to the length of the 4th digit, is often considered a proxy for testosterone exposure in utero. A recent study by Nicolaou et al. (2018) reported an association between the lefthand 2D:4D and self-employment (in a sample of about...

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Child schooling and child work in the presence of a partial education subsidy

Hoop, Jacobus de; Friedman, Jed; Kandpal, Eeshani; … - 2017

Could a partial subsidy for child education increase children's participation in paid work? In contrast to much of the …

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Firms' ethics, consumer boycotts, and signalling

Glazer, Amihai (contributor); Kanniainen, Vesa (contributor) - 2008

This paper develops a theory of consumer boycotts. Some consumers care not only about the products they buy but also about whether the firm behaves ethically. Other consumers do not care about the behavior of the firm but yet may like to give the impression of being ethical consumers....

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