Prevalence and predictors of child labour among junior public secondary school students in Enugu, Nigeria: a cross-sectional study [PDF]
BMC Public Health, 2021 Background Globally, millions of children are involved in child labour. However, low- and middle-income countries are mostly hit. This study examined the predictors of child labour among public secondary school students in the Enugu metropolis.
N. O. Enebe +6 more
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Breaking the cycle: long-term socio economic determinants of child labour in SAARC countries [PDF]
BMC Public HealthBackground Child labour remains a critical issue in SAARC countries, driven by various socio-economic factors. While previous studies have explored individual determinants, limited research has been conducted on their collective long-term impact ...
Tharaka Magammana +4 more
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Prevalence and risk factors for child labour and violence against children in Egypt using Bayesian geospatial modelling with multiple imputation. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2019 BackgroundThe incidence of child labour, especially across developing nations, is of global concern. The use of children in employment in developing economies constitutes a major threat to the societies, and concerted efforts are made by the relevant ...
Khaled Khatab +3 more
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Global Public HealthThis paper examines the relationship between child labour and educational attainment and explores the distinction between harmful and non-harmful agricultural cocoa work.
Lucy Pirkle +4 more
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Relationship of parental caregiving and child labour with developmental problems and mental health in children in low-to-middle-income countries using the socioecological resilience model [PDF]
BMC Public HealthBackground The socioecological resilience (SER) model explains that individual, relational, and structural factors influence child development and mental health.
Kelly Lin +5 more
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Typology of Child labour and work-related injuries to working children in Tehran [PDF]
پژوهشنامه مددکاری اجتماعی, 2021 Child labour is one of the most important social harm in the world. Many children are working in exploitative conditions and are exploited. In Iran, policies and interventions to eliminate child labour have not been very effective so far.
Parisa Pirkhandan +2 more
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A Critical Assessment of The Minimum Age Convention 138 of 1973 and The Worst Forms Of Child Labour Convention 182 of 1999 [PDF]
Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal, 2013 The International Labour Organisation (the ILO) has regulated child labour through the Minimum Age Convention and the Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention.
Rufaro Audrey Mavunga
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Archives of Disease in Childhood, 2006 The importance of health The International Labour Organisation (ILO) defines child labour as “all economic activities carried out by persons less than 15, regardless of their occupational status, except household work in parents/carers homes”.1 By this definition over 200 million children, or a massive 20% of all children under the age of 15, are ...
T, Hesketh, J, Gamlin, M, Woodhead
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Modeling of child labour exploitation status in Indonesia using multilevel binary logistic regression [PDF]
ITM Web of Conferences, 2021 The Indonesian constitution recognizes guarantees the right of the child to rest and leisure, to engage in play, and recreational activities appropriate to the age of the child so that they should not be working.
Sari Liza Kurnia, Wardana Lissa Octavia
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Child labour and inequality [PDF]
The Journal of Economic Inequality, 2016 This paper focuses on the role that inequality plays in shaping political support for child labour regulation policies. We provide a model of the evolution of child labour, fertility and human capital where the heterogeneity between low- and high-skilled workers allows for an endogenous analysis of inequality generated by child labour. Depending on the
D'ALESSANDRO, SIMONE, Fioroni, Tamara
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