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Record Nr.

UNINA9910411926403321

Titolo

Child Labor in the Developing World : Theory, Practice and Policy / / edited by Alberto Posso

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore : , : Springer Singapore : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020

ISBN

981-15-3106-4

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

344.7940131

Soggetti

Development economics

Economic development

Youth in development

Welfare economics

Development Economics

Development and Children

Social Choice/Welfare Economics/Public Choice/Political Economy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1. Introduction and overview of the model -- Chapter 2. Child labor and the macroeconomy -- Chapter 3. Microeconomics of child labor: Child labor, optimum savings and human capital accumulation -- Chapter 4. Is there a Culture of Child Labor? The Decision-making process of working, with special reference to the Girl Beedi rollers in Jhalda region of Purulia, West Bengal -- Chapter 5. Income shocks and child labor: evidence from the Dominican Republic -- Chapter 6. The effects of migration on child education and on engagement in different types of child labor in Vietnam: A simultaneous equation approach -- Chapter 7. The effect of child labor on primary education in Brazil -- Chapter 8. The role of parental characteristics on child labor participation and hours worked in Cameroon -- Chapter 9. Child Labor in a Pastoral Tribe of Jammu and Kashmir: Impact of Spatiality within a State of Conflict -- Chapter 10. Overall policy findings.

Sommario/riassunto

This book provides new evidence of the theoretical and empirical causes and consequences of child labor. In so doing, the chapters



provide a unique set of policy prescriptions that are applicable to both the developing countries that make up the case studies of the volume, as well as other countries more broadly. The volume is constructed to inform policy with rigorous analysis. However, unlike most academic studies, the language and flavour of the volume is largely non-technical, while the policy recommendations are practical. The volume is made up of three sections. The first section builds on the existing literature and provides new theoretical insights into child labor. Section 2 provides empirical evidence from both quantitative and qualitative case studies on child labor from across Asia, Africa and Latin America. This section provides information from studies conducted in Brazil, Cameroon, the Dominican Republic, India and Vietnam. Section 3 provides policy recommendations. .