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Does Globalisation Increase Child Labour?
by
Alessandro Cigno, Furio C. Rosati, Lorenzo Guarcello
(April 2002)
published in: World Development, 2002, 30 (9), 1579-1589
Abstract:
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 comparatively well educated labour force, and active social policies, appear
to be conducive to a reduction in child labour. For countries with a largely uneducated
workforce, the problem is not so much globalisation, as being allowed to take part in it.
Text: See Discussion Paper No. 470
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