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Internal vs. international migration: Impacts of remittances on child well-being in Vietnam
Binci, Michele; Giannelli, Gianna Claudia - 2012
This paper focuses on the effects of domestic and international remittances on children's well-being. Using data from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282523
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The Supply of Child Labour
Cigno, Alessandro - 2004
The paper develops a theoretical framework, and a diagrammatic apparatus, for explaining the supply of child labour. It examines the effect of credit, insurance, and poverty (defined as more than just low income). It also explains bonded child labour, a modern form of slavery closely associated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261870
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Does Globalisation Increase Child Labour?
Cigno, Alessandro; Rosati, Furio C.; 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262781
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Child labor, urban proximity and household composition
Fafchamps, Marcel; Wahba, Jackline - 2006
urban proximity. We find that children residing in or near urban centers attend school more and work less in total but are …. Urban proximity is found to reduce the workload of children and improve school attendance up to 3 hours of travel time from … the city. In areas of commercialized agriculture located 3 to 7 hours from the city, children do more farm work. Urban …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267668
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The relation between child labour and mother's work: The case of India
Francavilla, Francesca; Giannelli, Gianna Claudia - 2007
at the international level, that is, how to invest in women's rights to advance the rights of both women and children. We … and the women's data set. Our results show that the presence of the mother in the family increases children welfare, in … stay home and send her children to school the better is the father's employment position and the wealthier is the family …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268139
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Remittances, liquidity constraints and human capital investments in Ecuador
Calero, Carla; Bedi, Arjun S.; Sparrow, Robert - 2008
household's investments in human capital of school age children. In this context both child labour supply and transnational …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268678
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The influence of market wages and parental history on child labour and schooling in Egypt
Wahba, Jackline - 2005
on average 10 percent more likely to send their children to work. In addition, higher local regional income inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269228
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How to deal with covert child labour, and give children an effective education, in a poor developing country
Cigno, Alessandro - 2011
As credit and insurance markets are imperfect, and given that intra-family transfers, and the way a child uses her time outside school hours, are private information, the second-best policy makes school enrollment compulsory, forces overt child labour below its efficient level (if positive), and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278558
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Does promoting school attendance reduce child labour? Evidence from Burkina Faso's BRIGHT project
de Hoop, Jacobus; Rosati, Furio C. - 2012
discontinuity estimates demonstrate that, while BRIGHT substantially improved school participation, it increased children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283960
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Economic Influences on Child Migration Decisions:Evidence from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh
Edmonds, Eric V.; Salinger, Philip - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
Why do young children migrate without a parent? We consider the economic components ofthe answer to this question by … examining the correlates of out-migration for children under 15whose mother's reside in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, India. 1 … million children appear to havemigrated away from home in our data... …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861384