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Internal vs. international migration: Impacts of remittances on child well-being in Vietnam
Binci, Michele; Giannelli, Gianna Claudia - 2012
This paper focuses on the effects of domestic and international remittances on children's well-being. Using data from the 1992/93 and 1997/98 Vietnam Living Standards Surveys, we investigate average school attendance and child labour in remittance recipient and non-recipient households. The...
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Does promoting school attendance reduce child labour? Evidence from Burkina Faso's BRIGHT project
de Hoop, Jacobus; Rosati, Furio C. - 2012
Using data from BRIGHT, an integrated program that aims to improve school participation in rural communities in Burkina Faso, we investigate the impact of school subsidies and increased access to education on child work. Regression discontinuity estimates demonstrate that, while BRIGHT...
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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...
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How to deal with covert child labour, and give children an effective education, in a poor developing country: An optimal taxation problem with moral hazard
Cigno, Alessandro - 2010
Given that credit and insurance markets are imperfect, and given also that intra-household transfers, and much of the work a child does, are private information, the second-best policy uses a combination of need and merit based education awards, together with a mix of taxes on parental income,...
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How to deal with covert child labour, and give children an effective education, in a poor developing country
Cigno, Alessandro - 2011
As credit and insurance markets are imperfect, and given that intra-family transfers, and the way a child uses her time outside school hours, are private information, the second-best policy makes school enrollment compulsory, forces overt child labour below its efficient level (if positive), and...
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Profile of Out-of-School Children in the Philippines
Albert, Jose Ramon G.; Ramos, Andre Philippe; Quimba, … - 2012
The Philippines committed to Millennium Development Goals and Education for All (EFA) targets that include universal …
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Number of Children and their Education in Philippine Households
Orbeta, Aniceto C. - 2005
This paper shows how large family size can be an important contributor to poverty in the Philippines. It examines one … survey data for the Philippines to explain what determines the decision to keep children in school. The model specifically …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011429815
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Children and the Labor Force Participation and Earnings of Parents in the Philippines
Orbeta, Aniceto C. - 2005
This paper demonstrates how family size can be an important contributor to poverty in the Philippines. It examines one … survey data for the Philippines to explain what determines the decision to seek a job and the earnings of both mothers and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011429814
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Warum Väter ihre Erwerbstätigkeit (nicht) unterbrechen: Mikroökonomische versus in der Persönlichkeit des Vaters begründete Determinanten der Inanspruchnahme von Elternzeit durch V...
Vogt, Ann-Cathrin; Pull, Kerstin - In: Zeitschrift für Personalforschung (ZfP) 24 (2010) 1, pp. 48-68
In diesem Beitrag werden die Determinanten der Inanspruchnahme von Elternzeit durch Väter in Deutschland untersucht …. Zwar stieg der Anteil der Väter in Elternzeit seit der Elterngeldreform im Jahr 2007 kontinuierlich an, doch stellen Väter … immer noch die Minderheit der Elternzeit-Beansprucher. Im theoretischen Teil des Beitrags werden mikroökonomische und an der …
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Maternal Addiction to Parental Leave
Engström, Per; Kolm, Ann-Sofie; Liang, Che-Yuan - 2006
The increased demand for a more equal parental sharing of the responsibilities for children has led many countries to reconstruct their parental leave systems so to provide stronger incentives for fathers to participate in childcare. Father's quotas are becoming widely spread across Europe. This...
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