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Dimova, Ralitza; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2015

We examine agricultural child labor in the context of emigration, transfers, and the ability to hire outside labor. We start by developing a theoretical background based on Basu and Van, (1998), Basu, (1999, 2000) and Epstein and Kahana (2008) and show how hiring labor from outside the household...

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Social Conformity and Child Labor

Katav-Herz, Shirit - 2001

This paper investigates the phenomenon of child labor. I consider a society that in principle values education. Parents derive utility from social conformity, and “good” and “bad” equilibria can arise where the majority of children respectively do and do not go to school. In a “bad”...

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The making of a lost generation: Child labor among Syrian refugees in Turkey

Dayıoğlu, Meltem; Kirdar, Murat G.; Koç, İsmet - 2021

Millions of children are forcibly displaced around the world, making child labor a serious risk. However, little is known about this topic due to the difficulty of finding representative datasets for this population and information on child labor. In this study, we use a representative dataset...

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Keeping refugee children in school and out of work: Evidence from the world's largest humanitarian cash transfer program

Aygün, Aysun Hızıroğlu; Kirdar, Murat G.; Koyuncu, Murat - 2021

This paper investigates whether unconditional cash transfers can keep refugee children in school and out of work. We raise this question in the unique context of Turkey, which hosts the world's largest refugee population (including 3.6 million Syrians). Refugees in Turkey are supported by the...

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School integration of refugee children: Evidence from the largest refugee group in any country

Kirdar, Murat G.; Koç, İsmet; Dayıoğlu, Meltem - 2021

Although school integration of the children of economic migrants in developed countries is wellstudied in the literature, little evidence based on large scale representative data exists on the school integration of refugee children - many of whom live in low- or middle-income countries. This...

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Income diversification and working children

Vimefall, Elin - 2015

During recent years (2004-2008) the proportion of working children in sub-Saharan Africa has increased (Diallo et al. 2010). At the same time, there has been a shift in the patterns of livelihoods, whereby households rely more on sources of income from outside their own farms. When the adult in...

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Migration, education and the gender gap in labour force participation

Abdulloev, Ilhom; Gang, Ira N.; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2014

gap in labour force participation. We highlight the role of two factors - international migration and education - on the … education and migration have a significant association with the gender gap in labour force participation in Tajikistan … participation. Both women acquiring greater access to education and men increasing their migration abroad contribute to reducing the …

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Remittances and the brain drain revisited: The microdata show that more educated migrants remit more

Bollard, Albert; Morten, Melanie; Rapoport, Hillel - 2009

Two of the most salient trends surrounding the issue of migration and development over the last two decades are the … large rise in remittances, and an increased flow of skilled migration. However, recent literature based on cross …-country regressions has claimed that more educated migrants remit less, leading to concerns that further increases in skilled migration …

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Brain drain and development traps

Bénassy, Jean-Pascal; Brézis, Elise S. - 2011

endogenous international migration into a simple growth model. As a result the dynamics of the economy can feature some …

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Remittances, migrants' education and immigration policy: Theory and evidence from bilateral data

Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel; Salomone, Sara - 2011

-selective. These predictions are then tested empirically using bilateral remittance and migration data and proxy measures for the …

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