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Climate vulnerability, communities' resilience and child labour
Boutin, Delphine - 2014
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010419031
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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
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011950952
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Child labor and trade liberalization in Indonesia
Kis-Katos, Krisztina; Sparrow, Robert - 2009
underlying these results. -- Child labor ; trade liberalization ; poverty ; Indonesia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003894475
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School drop-out and push-out factors in Brazil : the role of early parenthood, child labor, and poverty
Cardoso, Ana Rute (contributor); Verner, Dorte (contributor) - 2006
parenthood, child labor, and poverty in pushing teenagers out of school is subject to particular attention. The potential …. Extreme poverty is another factor lowering school attendance, as children who have suffered hunger at some point in their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003523109
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Trade adjustment and human capital investments : evidence from Indian tariff reform
Edmonds, Eric V. (contributor); Pavcnik, Nina (contributor);  … - 2007
a failure to follow the national trend in poverty reduction. Schooling costs appear to play a large role in this … relationship between poverty, schooling, and child labor. Extrapolating from our results, our estimates imply that roughly half of … India's rise in schooling and a third of the fall in child labor during the 1990s can be explained by falling poverty and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003531879
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The supply of child labour
Cigno, Alessandro (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002000844
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Does child labor lead to vulnerable employment in adulthood? : evidence for Tanzania
Burrone, Sara; Giannelli, Gianna Claudia - 2019
This paper investigates the relationship between child labor and status in employment in adulthood. We aim to contribute to the literature that focuses on the obstacles to the formation early in life of the skills that allow people to avoid vulnerability. Using the panel data survey for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011980381
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Remittances and child labour in Africa : evidence from Burkina Faso
Boutin, Delphine - 2014
This paper explores the effects of remittance receipt on child labour in an African context. We focus on Burkina Faso, a country with a high prevalence of child labour and a high rate of migration. Given the complex relationship between remittance receipt and child labour, our identification...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010360846
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Remittances and child labour in Africa : evidence from Burkina Faso
Bargain, Olivier; Boutin, Delphine - 2014
This paper explores the effects of remittance receipt on child labour in an African context. We focus on Burkina Faso, a country with a high prevalence of child labour and a high rate of migration. Given the complex relationship between remittance receipt and child labour, our identification...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010252636
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Tackling the last hurdles of poverty entrenchment : an investigation of poverty dynamics for Ghana during 2005/06-2016/17
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Raju, Dhushyanth; Tanaka, Tomomi; … - 2024
Ghana has managed to consistently keep its poverty rate lower than the regional average over the past 25 years, but … this positive trend slowed down recently. We investigate the dynamics of overall, moderate, and extreme poverty in Ghana …-sectional data. While we find considerable conditional chronic (extreme) poverty rates hovering around 50-60 percent, there is more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014462179