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Does globalisation increase child labour?

Cigno, Alessandro; Rosati, Furio Camillo; Guarcello, Lorenzo - 2002

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Does globalisation increase child labour?

Cigno, Alessandro; Rosati, Furio Camillo; Guarcello, Lorenzo - 2002

There is no empirical evidence that trade exposure per se increases child labour. As trade theory and household economics lead us to expect, the cross-country evidence seems to indicate that trade reduces or, at worst, has no significant effect on child labour. Consistently with the theory, a...

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Does Globalisation Increase Child Labour?

Cigno, Alessandro; Rosati, Furio Camillo; Guarcello, Lorenzo - 2021

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Child Labor

Edmonds, Eric V. - 2021

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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Change and prediction of income and fertility rates across countries

Shin, Inyong - In: Cogent economics & finance 4 (2016) 1, pp. 1-34

This paper analyzes and predicts the changes of relationship between income and fertility rate of cross-countries using … between income and fertility rate, which is presented in the form of inverted S-shaped curve which shows the three regimes of … demographic transition. Some developed countries have completed their demographic transition in fertility rate, and in developing …

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Road to Crime : Expressway Connections and Child Trafficking

Bai, Yu; Li, Yanjun; Liu, Xinyan; Sun, Yajie - 2022

Child trafficking is a long-lasting social issue in China. We argue that abducted children increase as an indirect and unintended consequence of improved urban infrastructure, such as the construction of expressways that facilitate the expedient transfer of victims between cities. To identify...

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Labour market integration and its effect on child labour

Gärtner, Manfred - 2011

This note demonstrates that when developing countries remove barriers to migration and integrate their labour markets, children may be driven out of schools and into informal or paid employment in the comparatively rich countries. In industrialized countries, the same mechanism might force...

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Does minimum age of employment regulation reduce child labor? : the global fight against child labor might be better served by focusing less on existing laws and more on implementation and enforcement

Edmonds, Eric V. - 2014

Regulation of the minimum age of employment is the dominant tool used to combat child labor globally. If enforced, these regulations can change the types of work in which children participate, but minimum age regulations are not a useful tool to promote education. Despite their nearly universal...

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Child Labor Standards in Regional Trade Agreements : Theory and Evidence

Abman, Ryan M.; Lundberg, Clark C.; McLaren, John; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We study the impact of child labor standards in Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) on a variety of child labor market outcomes, including employment, education, and household inequality. We develop a stylized general equilibrium model of child labor in an economy open to international trade and...

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Population aging and migration

Poutvaara, Panu - 2021

fertility rate and emigration rate are going to develop in Africa. Even modest increases in emigration from Africa would …

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