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...

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...

Am umfassendsten hat wohl Kevin Bales in "Die neue Sklaverei" (BA 7/01) und populärer, schon Schülern zugänglich, in "Moderne Sklaverei" (BA 11/08) die Machenschaften der modernen Sklavenhändler und die Strukturen des Menschenhandels unserer Zeit untersucht und dokumentiert. D. Batstone,...