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Labor Market Integration and Its Effect on Child Labor

Gärtner, Manfred

In: Atlantic Economic Journal, 2011, vol. 39, no. 2, p. 165-170

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    Titre
    • Labor Market Integration and Its Effect on Child Labor
    Auteur
    • Gärtner, Manfred. Institute of Economics, School of Economics and Political Science, University of St. Gallen, Bodanstrasse 1, 9000, St. Gallen, Switzerland
    Type de document
    • Postprint
    Langue
    • Inglese
    Publié dans
    • Atlantic Economic Journal, 2011, vol. 39, no. 2, p. 165-170. Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com
    Autre version électronique
    Identifiant OAI-PMH
    • oai:doc.rero.ch:320819
    Summary
    This note demonstrates that when developing countries remove barriers to migration and integrate their labor 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 drive families into social security or government-subsidized jobs