Arbeit -- und nicht in erster Linie Schulbesuch und Spiel -- prägt den Alltag vieler Millionen Kinder in Entwicklungsländern. Ungeachtet ihrer vielfältigen Formen und komplexen Ursachen wird Kinderarbeit in der öffentlichen Diskussion und in der Politikpraxis der OECD-Länder meist als...

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...

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...