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It’s a Hard-Knock Life: Child Labor Practices and Compliance with IMF Agreements
Social Sciences, 2021 How does IMF lending impact child labor? We argue that, as compliance with IMF reforms increases, child labor increases. IMF loans can help governments avoid bankruptcy, prevent debt defaults, and credibly signal a commitment to pro-market reforms which ...
Brendan Skip Mark +3 more
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Is There a Child Labor Trap? Intergenerational Persistence of Child Labor in Brazil [PDF]
Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2003 This article examines the intergenerational persistence of child labor empirically by looking at household survey data from Brazil. Previous empirical work on child labor has focused primarily on isolating the determinants of child labor using survey data.
Emerson, Patrick M, Souza, Andre Portela
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CHILD LABOR AND THE EDUCATION OF A SOCIETY [PDF]
Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2001 This paper analyzes policies by means of which a whole society in an initial state of illiteracy and low productivity can raise itself into a condition of continuous growth. Using an overlapping generations model in which human capital is formed through child rearing and formal education, we show that an escape from a poverty trap, in which children ...
Bell, Clive, Gersbach, Hans
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Impact of Economic Downturn on Child Labor in Vietnam
Lentera Hukum, 2021 The economic recession led to the economic downturn, loss of jobs and income, and the risk of falling back into the poverty of near-poor and poor households. This recession caused an increase in child labor.
Nguyen Thanh Huyen
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Adult and child labor markets with Nashian and Kantian firms [PDF]
Fulbright Review of Economics and Policy, 2023 Purpose – This paper is a dedication to Professor Ngo Van Long who introduced the idea of Kant–Nash equilibrium. The author extends this analysis to the study of adult and child labor markets.
Van H. Pham
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Socio-Economic Factors in Child Labor: Moderating Role of Education
Journal of Management and Research, 2017 The notion of child labor has disquieted the researcher. This paper highlights the impact of poverty, unemployment and social progress on child labor based on data from 30 countries to ascertain that incidence of child labor may be high with high level ...
Mohammad Ali Haider Chauhan, Noor ul Ain
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Factors Determining Child Labor: Empirical Evidence from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
Changing Societies & Personalities, 2022 Children are forced to work when their families face financial pressures due to poverty, illness, or the loss of jobs. There is, however, still a perceived lack of research on the key factors contributing to child labor in Pakistan.
Sikandar Sikandar +5 more
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Measuring Child Labor in Oil Palm Production in Sabah, Malaysia
SAGE Open, 2023 Can we measure child labor? It may sound simple and a classic question to ask, but scholarly discourse continues to raise doubts about how best to measure it accurately, at what level of measurement, and how to differentiate between child labor and a ...
Andika Wahab, Ramli Dollah
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Traces of Exploitation in Childhood: A Research on Forms, Causes and Consequences of Child Labor [PDF]
پژوهشنامه مددکاری اجتماعی, 2022 A number of studies have examined some forms of child labor, but there are no studies that systematically address the various forms of child labor, their contexts, characteristics, and consequences. In this study, using a qualitative method, the forms of
kameel Ahmady
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Challenges and perspectives of child labor
Industrial Psychiatry Journal, 2018 Child labor is one of the oldest problems in our society and still an ongoing issue. During the time, child labor evolved from working in agriculture or small handicraft workshops to being forced into work in factories in the urban setting as a result of
Amir Radfar +3 more
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