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Local Labor Demand and Child Labor
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2007This paper uses micro data from the Brazilian Pesquisa Nacional Por Amostra de Domicilios (PNAD) between 1981 and 2002 to ascertain the role that local labor demand proxies by male adult employment in the area of residence plays in shaping the work and schooling decisions of children aged 10-15.
Manacorda, Marco, Rosati, Furio C.
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In recent years, there has been an astonishing proliferation of empirical work on child labor. An Econlit search of keywords "child lab*r" reveals a total of 6 peer reviewed journal articles between 1980 and 1990, 65 between 1990 and 2000, and 143 in the
Jennifer Kasper +2 more
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, 2006 Abstract In order to construct effective policies to address the problem of child labor, it is necessary to understand the circumstances that lead parents to send their children to work. The essay is organized as follows. The second section briefly describes some of the main features of child labor in developing countries.
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2020
Abstract The early conservatories were boarding schools. As children acquired useful musical skills, they were rented out to perform in the city. At what point does practical education turn into child labour and exploitation? From the perspective of earlier centuries, most children were expected to work.
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Abstract The early conservatories were boarding schools. As children acquired useful musical skills, they were rented out to perform in the city. At what point does practical education turn into child labour and exploitation? From the perspective of earlier centuries, most children were expected to work.
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1999
Consult this handy reference work when you need accurate, up to date information on subjects ranging from the effects of work on children's education to the use of child labor in Eastern Europe. From Dickensian exploitation of orphans to the after-school jobs of American students, child labor continues to generate controversy.
Sandy Hobbs +2 more
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Consult this handy reference work when you need accurate, up to date information on subjects ranging from the effects of work on children's education to the use of child labor in Eastern Europe. From Dickensian exploitation of orphans to the after-school jobs of American students, child labor continues to generate controversy.
Sandy Hobbs +2 more
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2003
Child labor exists because it is the best response people can find in intolerable circumstances. Poverty and child labor are mutually reinforcing: because their parents are poor, children must work and not attend school, and then grow up poor. Child labor has two important special features. First, when financial markets are imperfect, the separation in
Udry, Christopher R. +1 more
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Child labor exists because it is the best response people can find in intolerable circumstances. Poverty and child labor are mutually reinforcing: because their parents are poor, children must work and not attend school, and then grow up poor. Child labor has two important special features. First, when financial markets are imperfect, the separation in
Udry, Christopher R. +1 more
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2014
The paper presents a global scenario of child labor by placing the issue in a historical context as well as comparing current work in the field. It specifically explains the psychosocial, political, and economic determinants of child labor and the prevalence of different forms as well as its magnitude in the different regions of the world.
Usha Nayar, Priya Nayar, Nidhi Mishra
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The paper presents a global scenario of child labor by placing the issue in a historical context as well as comparing current work in the field. It specifically explains the psychosocial, political, and economic determinants of child labor and the prevalence of different forms as well as its magnitude in the different regions of the world.
Usha Nayar, Priya Nayar, Nidhi Mishra
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2017
There is no agreed definition of “child labor” because the concept is a culturally relative construct, operable primarily in the original English and lost in translation to most other languages. Thus, “child labor” carries different meanings or connotations. In the social sciences, the term usually refers to work that is in some way harmful to children
Cinnirella, Francesco, Toniolo, Gianni
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There is no agreed definition of “child labor” because the concept is a culturally relative construct, operable primarily in the original English and lost in translation to most other languages. Thus, “child labor” carries different meanings or connotations. In the social sciences, the term usually refers to work that is in some way harmful to children
Cinnirella, Francesco, Toniolo, Gianni
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