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This paper analyzes the effects of the "Nordic Model" of prostitution legislation adopted in Sweden in 1999, according to which buyers only are prosecuted. We focus on various measures of violence, distinguishing between known and unknown perpetrator, indoor and outdoor crimes, and on health...
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training. The theoretical intuition on the impact of wage floors on education is ambiguous. On the one hand, they raise the … opportunity cost of education and prevent further skill accumulation. On the other hand, they lower the employment probability of … workers declines which lowers the opportunity cost of education. High requirements with regard to professional skills …
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sufficient intelligence by people with limited intelligence may dominate government regulation. …
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Structural transformation in rural Viet Nam has led to rising incomes and a diversification of livelihoods away from agriculture. Using panel data on children in 2,181 rural households surveyed over the 2008-14 period, we examine how the welfare of children has been impacted by structural...
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below which an increase in income has no impact on child labour and education. We estimate the causal impact of an increase … in income on child labour and education exploiting the random allocation of the Child Grant Programme, an unconditional …, while relatively less poor households reduce child labour and increase education. In policy terms, the results indicate that …
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We study the relationship between child work and cognitive development in four Low and Middle Income Countries. We address a key weakness in the literature by including children's full time-use vector in the analysis, which leads to different findings from previous studies which do not...
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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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The paper deals with child labour in developing countries. We address a problem that has recently drawn much attention at the international level, that is, how to invest in women's rights to advance the rights of both women and children. We study the problem from a new perspective. In our...
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work activities, while remittances are used to finance education when households are faced with these shocks. This suggests …
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