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Why is Child Labor Illegal?
Dessy, Sylvain - 2007
develop a theory of the emergence of mandatory education laws. If parents are unable to commit to educating their children …
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A Case Against Child Labor Prohibitions
Powell, Benjamin - 2014
Halima is an 11-year-old girl who clips loose threads off of Hanes underwear in a Bangladeshi factory. She works about eight hours a day, six days per week. She has to process 150 pairs of underwear an hour. At work she feels “very tired and exhausted,” and sometimes falls asleep standing...
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The Effect of Ilo Minimum Age Conventions on Child Labour and School Attendance
Boockmann, Bernhard - 2008
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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Education in Extreme Environments, Does Mother's Education Still Matter?
Badji, Samia - 2017
maternal education and two questions are addressed. First, whether the effect of mother education differs inside and outside … camp. Results show a slightly stronger effect of maternal education in the camp for short-to-middle-term health outcomes …, the analysis highlights the role played by maternal education not only as a way to improve child health but also as a …
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Child labour : global estimates 2020, trends and the road forward
Internationales Arbeitsamt; UNICEF - 2021
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A decade of action for a change of era : fifth report on regional progress and challenges in relation to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in Latin America and the Caribb...
Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the …; … - 2022
.-- Chapter II. Trends in the Sustainable Development Goal indicators .-- Chapter III. Progress on quality education, gender …
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Do firms demand temporary workers when they face workload fluctuation? : cross-country firm-level evidence on the conditioning effect of employment protection
Dräger, Vanessa; Marx, Paul - 2012
Although the negative economic effects of temporary employment are widely discussed, cross-country research on firms' demand for temporary employment is rare. National studies indicate that workload fluctuations are one major motive for firms to employ temporary workers. By studying a novel data...
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Do Firms Demand Temporary Workers When They Face Workload Fluctuation? Cross-Country Firm-Level Evidence on the Conditioning Effect of Employment Protection
Dräger, Vanessa - 2012
Although the negative economic effects of temporary employment are widely discussed, cross-country research on firms' demand for temporary employment is rare. National studies indicate that workload fluctuations are one major motive for firms to employ temporary workers. By studying a novel data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099406
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Access to Justice for Women and Their Labor Force Participation : A Cross-Country Assessment
Martins, Armando N.G.L - 2021
The necessity of legal services for good economic performance is a traditional topic in Law and Economics; moreover, recent literature emphasizes the role of access to justice in economic variables. However, the impact of different treatment among genders in economic and legal institutions is...
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International migratory agreements : the paradox of adverse interest
Alonso, José Antonio; Santos Arteaga, Francisco Javier - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 11 (2020) 1/20, pp. 1-29
This article seeks to explain the contradiction between the promises of welfare gains derived from the economic models recommending the removal of immigration restrictions and the realities experienced by countries attempting to apply restrictions to immigration flows. A formal model is built in...
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