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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...

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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...

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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; 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,...

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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

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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...

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Short Hours, Long Hours: Hour Levels and Trends in the Retail Industry in the United States, Canada, and Mexico

Carre, Francoise; Tilly, Chris - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 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,...

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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

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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 …

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