Chapter 57 Child Labor

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 first five years of the present decade. The purpose of this essay is to provide a detailed overview of the state of the recent empirical literature on why and how children work as well as the consequences of that work.

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Year of publication:	2007
Authors:	Edmonds, Eric V.
Published in:	Handbook of development economics : volume 4. - Amsterdam : North-Holland, ISBN 0-444-53100-9. - 2007, p. 3607-3709
Subject:	time allocation \| child labor \| labor supply \| human capital \| investments in children \| Kinderarbeit \| Child labour \| Zeitverwendung \| Time use \| Bildungsinvestition \| Human capital investment \| Kinder \| Children \| Arbeitsangebot \| Labour supply \| Theorie \| Theory \| Bildungsverhalten \| Educational behaviour \| Humankapital \| Human capital

Type of publication:	Article
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	10.1016/S1573-4471(07)04057-0 [DOI]
Classification:	J13 - Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth ; J22 - Time Allocation and Labor Supply ; J82 - Labor Force Composition ; O15 - Human Resources; Income Distribution; Migration
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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