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This paper investigates how the permanent departure of the father from the household affects children's school … enrolment and work participation in rural Colombia. Our results show that departure of the father decreases children's school …, strongly suggests that the channel through which departure affects children is through reducing income. It also highlights the …
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This paper focuses on the effects of domestic and international remittances on children's well-being. Using data from …
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Trotz umfangreicher staatlicher Programme zur Bekämpfung von Obdachlosigkeit kann diese mit den üblicherweise … Entstehung von Obdachlosigkeit beitragen, zu untersuchen und so Ansatzpunkte zu deren weiterer Reduktion auszumachen. Zunächst … Obdachlosigkeit hergestellt. Aus dem Modell lässt sich ein kritisches Einkommen, das den Konsum von Wohnraum gewährleistet, ableiten …
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The paper addresses the linkage between certain aspects of the increasing economic integration of world markets and the level of child labour. We empirically examine, first, the often-cited conventional wisdom that multinational enterprises invest in countries where the extent of child labour is...
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1990s, there is little evidence for an increase in school attendance for children protected by ILO convention No. 138 as … compared to unprotected children. …
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Child labour, particularly in its worst forms, harms the health and general welfare of children. It is considered to be … a decisive impediment to the development efforts of developing countries. Working children drop out of school early and … of having a large number of children that are working under conditions considered as child labour. The prime reason is …
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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...
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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...
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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 …
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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 …
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