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Does Globalisation Increase Child Labour?

Cigno, Alessandro; Rosati, Furio C.; Guarcello, Lorenzo - 2021

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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International Labor Standards and the Political Economy of Child Labor Regulation

Doepke, Matthias; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - 2021

Child labor is a persistent phenomenon in many developing countries. In recent years, support has been growing among rich-country governments and consumer groups for the use of trade policies, such as product boycotts and the imposition of international labor standards, to reduce child labor in...

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International Trade and Child Labor : Cross-Country Evidence

Edmonds, Eric V.; Pavcnik, Nina - 2021

We explore the relationship between greater exposure to trade (as measured by openness) and child labor in a cross country setting. Our methodology accounts for the fact that trade flows are endogenous to child labor (and labor standards more generally) by examining the relationship between...

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Conditional cash transfers and child labor

Cepaluni, Gabriel; Chewning, Taylor Kinsley; Driscoll, … - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 152 (2022), pp. 1-15

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Child Labor Standards in Regional Trade Agreements : Theory and Evidence

Abman, Ryan M.; Lundberg, Clark C.; McLaren, John; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We study the impact of child labor standards in Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) on a variety of child labor market outcomes, including employment, education, and household inequality. We develop a stylized general equilibrium model of child labor in an economy open to international trade and...

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Child labour and global value chains

Ugarte, Cristian; Olarreaga, Marcelo; Saiovici, Gady - In: The world economy : the leading journal on … 46 (2023) 4, pp. 941-968

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Child Labour Theories and Policies

Rosati, Furio C. - 2022

This chapter presents the main theoretical analyses in the area of child labour and their implications in terms of policy design. The discussion is based on the human capital approach and presents a simplified model that allows to frame the most relevant results present in the literature. It...

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The Global Child Labor Problem : What Do We Know and What Can We Do?

Basu, Kaushik; Tzannatos, Zafiris - 2003

The problem of child labor has moved from a matter of regional and national concern to one of international debate and possible global persuasion and policy intervention. In crafting policy for mitigating this enormous problem of our times, it is important to start with a proper theoretical and...

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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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Child work, poverty and underdevelopment

Rodgers, Gerry (ed.); Standing, Guy (contributor) - 1981

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