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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...

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Income Inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean: Evidence from Household Surveys

Gasparini, Leonardo - 2003

This paper reports information on income inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean computed from a sample of more than 50 household surveys from 20 LAC countries from 1989 to 2001. Although the core of the statistics is on household income inequality, we also report results on aggregate...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011941057

Export Structure, FDI and Child Labour

Busse, Matthias; Braun, Sebastian - 2003

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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The Effect of ILO Minimum Age Conventions on Child Labour and School Attendance

Boockmann, Bernhard - 2004

Child labour has always been one of the core concerns of the International Labour Organisation (ILO). In this paper, we investigate whether ILO conventions have contributed to reducing the scale of the problem. We use two approaches to answering the question. Evidence based on country-level data...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297377

Impact of income and non-income shocks on child labour: Evidence from a panel survey of Tanzania

Bandara, Amarakoon; Dehejia, Rajeev; Rouse, Shaheen Lavie - 2014

This paper investigates the impact of income and non-income shocks on child labour using a model in which the household maximizes utility from consumption as well as human capital development of the child. Two types of shocks are considered: agricultural shocks as an income shock and the death...

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Market access and child labour: Survey evidence from Rural Uganda

Muhumuza, Tony - 2012

The study analyses the relationship between access to rural product markets and the extent and nature of child labour. It is built on the view that if physical markets can shape rural development through, for instance, influencing prices, household production decisions and employment, the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289812

Core labour standards and FDI: Friends or foes? The case of child labour

Braun, Sebastian - 2006

We test the often-cited hypothesis that high levels of child labour attract foreign investors. Using panel data we show the overall effect, which child labour has on foreign direct investment (FDI), to be a (small) negative one. We find strong evidence for the theoretical prediction that child...

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More is more: Livelihood interventions and child labor in the agricultural sector

Chiodi, Vera; Escudero, Verónica - 2020

of their children on their family farms, accompanied by an education intervention aimed to improve the quality of schools … measures to improve the quality of education in Peru, we see a reduction in hazardous child labor and child labor overall … had an effect in the reduction of child labor, and these effects were reinforced by education interventions. Results …

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Chronicle of a deceleration foretold: Income inequality in Latin America in the 2010s

Gasparini, Leonardo; Cruces, Guillermo; Tornarolli, Leopoldo - 2015

After a decade of strong progress toward the goal of reducing the high levels of income disparities, there are clear signs of a deceleration in the pace of inequality reduction in Latin America. This paper argues that the deceleration is the result of two set of reasons. First, several of the...

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Income distribution in Latin America: The evolution in the last 20 years: A global approach

Tornarolli, Leopoldo; Ciaschi, Matías; Galeano, Luciana - 2018

While Latin America has historically been considered a region of very high inequality, the performance of most Latin American countries in terms of reduction of income inequality has been remarkable good in the first decade of this century. Given that those improvements took place in a context...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012164610

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