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...

This paper examines the relationship between child labor and access to credit at a crosscountry level. Even though this link is theoretically central to child labor, so far there has been little work done to assess its importance empirically. We measure child labor as a country aggregate, and...

This paper examines the relationship between child labor and access to credit at a cross-country level. Even though this link is theoretically central to child labor, so far there has been little work done to assess its importance empirically. We measure child labor as a country aggregate, and...

We explore the relationship between greater exposure to trade (as measured by openness) and child labor in a cross country setting. Our methodology accounts for the fact that trade flows are endogenous to child labor (and labor standards more generally) by examining the relationship between...

Die Annahme, es gäbe heutzutage keine Sklaverei mehr, geht an der Realität vorbei. Tatsächlich sind heute - in absoluten Zahlen - mehr Menschen versklavt als jemals zuvor in der Geschichte. Die Internationale Arbeitsorganisation der Vereinten Nationen spricht von "moderner Sklaverei" und...

The study was conducted in Sukkur city. The data for ongoing study was collected through convenience sampling method. It is an exploratory research with quantitative analysis. Samples were consisted on 150 female child domestic workers. The age of respondents is between 10-14 years. 45%...