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Compliance with legal minimum wages and overtime pay regulations in China

Ye, Linxiang; Gindling, Thomas; Li, Shi - In: IZA journal of labor & development 4 (2015) 16, pp. 1-35

We use a matched firm-employee data set to examine the extent of compliance with minimum wage and overtime pay regulations in Chinese formal sector firms. We find evidence that there is broad compliance with legal minimum wages in China; fewer than 3.5% of full-time workers earn less than the...

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Cognitive ability and paternalism

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2002

sufficient intelligence by people with limited intelligence may dominate government regulation. …

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Policy consequences of limited cognitive ability

Saint-Paul, Gilles - In: Spanish Economic Review 6 (2004) 2, pp. 97-105

This paper analyses the welfare effects of price restrictions on private contracting in a world where agents have a limited cognitive ability. We deal with that by assuming that people compute the costs and benefits of entering a transaction with an error. We first discuss an example of an...

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Cognitive Ability and Paternalism

Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

sufficient intelligence by people with limited intelligence may dominate government regulation. …

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Cognitive Ability and Paternalism

Saint-Paul, Gilles - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

sufficient intelligence by people with limited intelligence may dominate government regulation. …

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Market power, randomization and regulation

Loertscher, Simon; Muir, Ellen V. - In: International journal of industrial organization 96 (2024), pp. 1-17

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Child Labor and School Achievement in Latin America

Gunnarsson, L. Victoria; Orazem, Peter F.; Sánchez, … - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2003

Child labor's effect on academic achievement is estimated, using unique data on 3rd and 4th graders in 9 Latin American countries. Cross-country variation in truancy regulations provides an exogenous shift in the ages of children normally in these grades, providing exogenous variation in...

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Children and the youth in rural Viet Nam

Narciso, Gaia; Newman, Carol - 2015

Structural transformation in rural Viet Nam has led to rising incomes and a diversification of livelihoods away from agriculture. Using panel data on children in 2,181 rural households surveyed over the 2008-14 period, we examine how the welfare of children has been impacted by structural...

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The Income Elasticity of Child Labour: Do Cash Transfers Have an Impact on the Poorest Children?

Pellerano, Luca; Porreca, Eleonora; Rosati, Furio C. - 2018

below which an increase in income has no impact on child labour and education. We estimate the causal impact of an increase … in income on child labour and education exploiting the random allocation of the Child Grant Programme, an unconditional …, while relatively less poor households reduce child labour and increase education. In policy terms, the results indicate that …

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The impact of child work on cognitive development: Results from four low to middle income countries

Keane, Michael P.; Krutikova, Sonya; Neal, Timothy - 2018

We study the relationship between child work and cognitive development in four Low and Middle Income Countries. We address a key weakness in the literature by including children's full time-use vector in the analysis, which leads to different findings from previous studies which do not...

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