Child Labor Across the Developing World : Patterns and Correlations
The aim of this study is two-fold. First, based on summary data at the country-level for an unusually large set of developing countries originally obtained from household sample surveys conducted between 1993 and 2003, the authors construct a detai...
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| Format: | Policy Research Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2012
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2007/02/7346682/child-labor-across-developing-world-patterns-correlations http://hdl.handle.net/10986/7150 |
| Summary: | The aim of this study is two-fold.
First, based on summary data at the country-level for an
unusually large set of developing countries originally
obtained from household sample surveys conducted between
1993 and 2003, the authors construct a detailed profile of
child economic activity and child labor, attempting,
wherever the data permit, to identify similarities and
differences across regions and between genders. Second, they
link the country-level data on child economic activity and
child labor to country-level indicators of the state of
economic and social development in the same time period in
order to (1) ascertain if cross-country correlations
previously identified in the literature are found in the
data, and (2) illumine other possible correlations that may
exist. As part of this exercise, the authors examine one
important relationship that has thus far not been directly
investigated in the literature, namely, the cross-country
correlation between child labor, agriculture, and poverty. |
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