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Child Labor, Openness, Human Capital and Technology : A Panel Data Approach
Bonnal, Michaël - 2014
I explore the link between openness to trade, investments in human capital and technology, credit market constraints, and child labor in a panel of 101 countries from 1980 to 2004. In a cross-country setting, Neumayer and De Soysa (2005) and Edmonds and Pavcnik (2006) find that countries that...
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Representation as power and performative practice : global civil society advocacy for working children
Holzscheiter, Anna - 2016
This article analyses global civil society advocacy in the field of child labour through the lens of theories on … representation, that is, between civil society actors' power to represent and their power over representation. Using such an approach …
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The Determinants of Child Labor : The Role of Primary Product Specialization
Becchetti, Leonardo; Trovato, Giovanni - 2004
The paper tests predictions of a traditional intra-household bargaining model which, under reasonable assumptions, shows that lack of bargaining power in the value chain significantly reduces the capacity of obtaining benefits from increased product demand arising from trade liberalization and...
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Child Labour Theories and Policies
Rosati, Furio C. - 2022
This chapter presents the main theoretical analyses in the area of child labour and their implications in terms of policy design. The discussion is based on the human capital approach and presents a simplified model that allows to frame the most relevant results present in the literature. It...
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Trends in time allocation : a cross-country analysis
Gimenez-Nadal, J. Ignacio; Sevilla, Almudena - 2012
Using detailed time-use data for seven industrialized countries from the 1970s until today we document general decreases in men's market work coupled with increases in men's unpaid work and child care, and increases in women's paid work and child care coupled with decreases in unpaid work. We...
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Trends in Time Allocation : A Cross-Country Analysis
Giménez, José Ignacio - 2012
Using detailed time-use data for seven industrialized countries from the 1970s until today we document general decreases in men's market work coupled with increases in men's unpaid work and child care, and increases in women's paid work and child care coupled with decreases in unpaid work. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013103493
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The gender pay gap across countries : a human capital approach
Polachek, Solomon W.; Xiang, Jun - 2014
The gender wage gap varies across countries. For example, among OECD nations women in Australia, Belgium, Italy and Sweden earn 80% as much as males, whereas in Austria, Canada and Japan women earn about 60%. Current studies examining cross-country differences focus on the impact of labor market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010424152
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The Gender Pay Gap Across Countries : A Human Capital Approach
Polachek, Solomon W. - 2014
The gender wage gap varies across countries. For example, among OECD nations women in Australia, Belgium, Italy and Sweden earn 80% as much as males, whereas in Austria, Canada and Japan women earn about 60%. Current studies examining cross-country differences focus on the impact of labor market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013044406
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DIALOGO — Religion and Society : Agreements & Controversies
Mirea, Ruxandra - 2017
society and till the end of it, no matter how evolved or primitive its precepts ever were. For that reason Religion was always … influence over Society is been done by and through Religion. In this case, is Religion a threat for human evolution as seen by … involvement of religion into the civil society and its influences upon it. We can see that these influences are regarded lately as …
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Ethnic Diversity in Southeast Seattle
Gearheart, Carolee; Gordon, Andrew; Locke, Hubert; … - 1999
The citizens of Seattle represent many ethnic backgrounds. White citizens predominate, but Blacks, Asians from a variety of ethnic origins, Hispanics, and Native Americans are also in evidence in both the neighborhoods and the political life of the city. According to the 1990 census, the city's...
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