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Remittances, schooling, and child labor in Mexico
Alcaraz, Carlo; Chiquiar, Daniel; Salcedo, Alejandrina - 2010
This paper studies the effects of remittances from the U.S. on child labor and school attendance in recipient Mexican households. We identify these effects using the impact of the 2008-2009 U.S. recession on remittance receipts. The methodology employed is a differences-in-differences strategy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010322610
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Remittances, schooling, and child labor in Mexico
Alcaraz, Carlo; Chiquiar, Daniel; Salcedo, Alejandrina - 2010
This paper studies the effects of remittances from the U.S. on child labor and school attendance in recipient Mexican households. We identify these effects using the impact of the 2008-2009 U.S. recession on remittance receipts. The methodology employed is a differences-in-differences strategy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008737115
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Determinants of Child Labor in the Modern United States : Evidence from Agricultural Workers and Their Children and Concerns for Ongoing Public Policy
Fan, Maoyong; Huston, Mimi; Pena, Anita - 2015
Current legislative proposals consider amendments to child labor laws for U.S. agriculture. Similar amendments, however, have been unsuccessful recently. Using the National Agricultural Workers Survey, we show that child labor is still substantial in the modern U.S. despite some decreases over...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014139514
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Short hours, long hours : hour levels and trends in the retail industry in the United States, Canada, and Mexico
Carré, Françoise J.; Tilly, Chris - 2012
In settings where most workers have full-time schedules, hourly wages are appropriate primary indicators of job quality and worker outcomes. However, in sectors where full-time schedules do not dominate - primarily service-producing activities - total hours matter, in addition to hourly wages,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009534962
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Health and Safety vs. Freedom of Contract : The Tortured Path of Wage and Hours Limits Through the State Legislatures and the Courts
Fishback, Price Van Meter - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
The paper examines changes in wage and hour labor regulation between 1898 and 1938. Many see the 1905 Lochner Supreme Court decision striking down hours limits for men as the beginning of 30 years in which labor regulation was stymied by the doctrine of "freedom of contract." That issue played a...
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Short Hours, Long Hours : Hour Levels and Trends in the Retail Industry in the United States, Canada, and Mexico
Wyrwa, Richard; Tilly, Chris - 2012
In settings where most workers have full-time schedules, hourly wages are appropriate primary indicators of job quality and worker outcomes. However, in sectors where full-time schedules do not dominate — primarily service-producing activities — total hours matter, in addition to hourly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014169789
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Frontiers of family economics ; Vol. 1
Rupert, Peter (contributor) - 2008 - 1. ed.
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Child labor : a global view
Schmitz, Cathryne L. (contributor);  … - 2004
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001795356
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Income mobility of individuals in China and the United States
Khor, Niny; Pencavel, John H. - 2006
Though much has been written about annual income inequality in China, little research has been conducted on longer run … measures of income inequality and on income mobility. This paper compares income mobility of urban individuals in China and the … misleading indicators of long-run income inequality? How much income mobility was there in China in the first half of the 1990s …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276243
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The labor supply and retirement behavior of China's older workers and elderly in comparative perspective
Giles, John; Wang, Dewen; Cai, Wei - 2011
This paper highlights the employment patterns of China's over 45 population and, for perspective, places them in the … developing countries, China can be characterized as having two retirement systems: a formal system, under which urban employees … of exit from work are shown to be much greater in urban China than in rural areas, and also greater than observed in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282251