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The political economy of child labor
Maffei, Alessandro - 2005
Kinderarbeit ist besonders in Entwicklungsländern ein weit verbreitetes Phänomen. In den letzten Jahren entwickelte … sich eine weit verzweigte ökonomische Literatur, welche sich mit dem Problem der Kinderarbeit beschäftigt. Im ersten Teil … gegeben, wobei ich im Vorfeld zunächst Fakten über die Verbreitung von Kinderarbeit und deren verschiedenen Facetten …
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Globalization and child labor
Kis-Katos, Krisztina - 2010
Dieses Buch untersucht die Auswirkungen von Globalisierung auf Kinderarbeit sowohl aus theoretischer als auch aus … Evidenz über die Formen und Verbreitung von Kinderarbeit, und skizziert den internationalen Regelrahmen, in dem … Kinderarbeitsstandards festgelegt werden. Nach einem Literaturüberblick über die unterschiedlichen ökonomischen Gründe für Kinderarbeit …
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Child labor and multinational conduct : a comparison of international business and stakeholder codes
Kolk, A.; Tulder, R. van - 2002
Increasing attention to the issue of child labor has been reflected in codes of conduct that emerged in the past decade in particular. This paper examines the way in which multinationals, business associations, governmental and non-governmental organizations deal with child labor in their codes....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009460183
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Innovation at the State Level: Initial Effects of Welfare Reform in Iowa
Keng, Shao-Hsun; Garasky, Steven B.; Jensen, Helen H. - 1999
In 1993, the State of Iowa, through waivers, implemented reforms to its welfare program creating the Family Investment program (FIP), a program similar to the Federal Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) program created in 1996. This paper examines the experiences of individuals and...
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Social Approval, Values, and AFDC: A Reexamination of the Illegitimacy Debate
Nechyba, Thomas J. - 2001
This paper models the fertility decision of individuals who differ in their wage rate and their intensity of preferences for rearing children, and whose utility of having a child out of wedlock depends on the level of “social approval” associated with doing so. This social approval in turn...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009475595
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How Immigrants and Students Respond to Public Policies: Evidence from Welfare Reform, the Minimum Wage and Stafford Loans.
Cadena, Brian C. - 2008
The first two essays of this dissertation use policy experiments to show that low-skilled newly arriving immigrants help keep the economy in geographic equilibrium by differentially selecting destinations that provide better labor market prospects. The first essay finds that immigrants choose...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009477369
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Mother's income and child mortality in southern Nigeria
Sulaiman, Ismaila Lawal - 1987
Material resources affect the levels of mortality. In cross-sectional relationships income has been found to be positively associated with survival, both within and between countries. Preston (1975, 1976), in particular, using cross-national data for three separate decades of the 20th century,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438517
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Does having a newborn child affect income diversification opportunities?: evidence from the Peruvian Young Lives Study
Escobal, Javier; Suárez, Pablo; Huttly, Sharon; … - 2005
communities who have no young children. The authors explore links between income diversification strategies, household assets, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441486
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Interlinked Transactions in Cash Cropping Economies: The Determinants of Farmer Participation and Performance in the Zambezi River Valley of Mozambique
Benfica, Rui M.S.; Tschirley, David L.; Boughton, Duncan - 2006
of participation on overall crop and household incomes in the Zambezi Valley of Mozambique. We test the existence of …
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