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

Bandara, Amarakoon; Dehejia, Rajeev H.; 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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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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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...

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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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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...

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Economic Influences on Child Migration Decisions:Evidence from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh

Edmonds, Eric V.; Salinger, Philip - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Why do young children migrate without a parent? We consider the economic components ofthe answer to this question by examining the correlates of out-migration for children under 15whose mother's reside in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, India. 1 million children appear to havemigrated away from home in...

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

Braun, Sebastian (contributor) - 2006

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003324312

Economic influences on child migration decisions : evidence from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh

Edmonds, Eric V. (contributor); Salinger, Philip (contributor) - 2007

Why do young children migrate without a parent? We consider the economic components of the answer to this question by examining the correlates of out-migration for children under 15 whose mother's reside in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, India. 1 million children appear to have migrated away from home...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003586573

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