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Frontiers in Sociology, 2022 This research is concerned with understanding the factors behind the trade-off between child labor and child schooling, given the well-documented links between the two.
Rafiqul Islam, Md Mahmudul Hoque
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Evolution of child labor rate in Brazilian states: policy limits and contradictions [PDF]
Economia e Sociedade, 2020 This study descriptively explores the evolution of child labor rates in Brazilian states from 2000 to 2014 and indicates specific limits and contradictions of governmental measures adopted for its reduction.
Temidayo James Aransiola, Marcelo Justus
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Child Labor in the State of Amazonas: Invisibility of the Notification System
Revista Brasileira de Epidemiologia, 2022 Objective: To describe the characteristics of reported cases of child labor in general and to compare official reported child labor data with data on sexual exploitation and occupational accidents involving children and adolescents between 2017 and 2021.
Nathália França de Oliveira +3 more
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Social Law Problems Arising from Child Labor Use
Sosyal Siyaset Konferansları Dergisi, 2021 International norms have largely shaped Turkish labor law regulations for children and young workers. However, various regulatory problem areas have emerged from the number of children not covered by the labor law legislation.
Yüsra Ak, Demet Toktaş
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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 +1 more
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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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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2007 In recent years, there has been an astonishing proliferation of empirical work on child labor. An Econlit search of keywords child labor reveals a total of 6 peer reviewed journal articles between 1980 and 1990, 65 between 1990 and 2000, and 143 in the first five years of the present decade.
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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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