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International Labor Standards and the Political Economy of Child Labor Regulation
Doepke, Matthias; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - 2021
international labor standards, to reduce child labor in poor countries. In this paper, we discuss research on the long …
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Integrating Social Insurance and Social Assistance Programs for the Future World of Labor
Palacios, Robert J. - 2020
a world of labor characterized by persistent low productivity jobs, more frequent labor market transitions including …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012833862
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Do International Labor Standards Contribute to the Persistence of the Child Labor Problem?
Doepke, Matthias - 2014
child labor in poor countries through measures such as product boycotts and the imposition of international labor standards … show that these types of international action on child labor tend to lower domestic political support within developing … countries for banning child labor. Hence, international labor standards and product boycotts may delay the ultimate eradication …
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Do Cash Transfers Improve Birth Outcomes? Evidence from Matched Vital Statistics, Social Security and Program Data
Amarante, Verónica - 2012
There is limited empirical evidence on whether unrestricted cash social assistance to poor pregnant women improves children's birth outcomes. Using program administrative micro-data matched to longitudinal vital statistics on the universe of births in Uruguay, we estimate that participation in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013113077
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The Welfare State and Anti-Poverty Policy in Rich Countries
Marx, Ive - 2014
This paper is prepared as a chapter for the Handbook of Income Distribution, Volume 2 (edited by A. B. Atkinson and F. Bourguignon, Elsevier-North Holland, forthcoming). Like the other chapters in the volume (and its predecessor), the aim is to provide a comprehensive review of a particular area...
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Indirect Effects of an Aid Program : The Case of Progresa and Consumption
Angelucci, Manuela; De Giorgi, Giacomo - 2021
Aid programs in developing countries are likely to affect all households living in the treated areas, both eligible and non-eligible ones. Studies that focus on the treatment effect on the treated may fail to capture important spillover effects. We exploit the unique design of an aid program's...
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Middlemen, Non-Profits, and Poverty
Chau, Nancy H. - 2015
In many markets in developing countries, especially in remote areas, middlemen are thought to earn excessive profits. Non-profits come in to counter what is seen as middlemen's market power, and rich country consumers pay a "fair-trade" premium for products marketed by such non-profits. This...
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The Income Elasticity of Child Labour : Do Cash Transfers Have an Impact on the Poorest Children?
Pellerano, Luca - 2019
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/10012896761
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Inequality and Trade Policy : Pro-Poor Bias of Contemporary Trade Restrictions
Ural Marchand, Beyza P. - 2019
This paper studies the pro-poor bias of contemporary trade policy in India by estimating the household welfare effects of eliminating the current protection structure. The elimination of a pro-poor trade policy is expected to have lower welfare gains or higher welfare loss at the low end of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870281
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Social Protection Beyond the Bottom Billion
Murphy, Susan - 2014
Most conceptualisations of the bottom billion assume that "the poor" are a minority group in a state of continuous dependency, identifiable by region and demographic. Using a flow analysis (inflow and outflow) of poverty, rather than a stock analysis, we explain why poverty is more appropriately...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013049083