Child domestic labour and mothers’ employment in Turkey

Extreme Forms of Child Labour in Turkey

Two little known forms of child labour in Turkey are examined. The process through which these children are made to work has parallels with the experiences of slaves. First, a longstanding practice from Northwestern Turkey of parents hiring children to better-off farmers is examined. Further, a more recent problem is examined where children are trafficked to big cities and forced to join crimin...

Does Mothers’ Employment Conflict with Child Development? Multilevel Analysis of British Mothers born in 1958 Running Title: Mothers’ Employment and Child Development

Acknowledgements This paper reflects work begun under the ESRC Programme on Children 5-16 (grant L129100268), and developed under a grant from the Smith Institute. We are grateful to colleagues in the ESRC Project, particularly Dick Wiggins and Andrew McCulloch for work on which we have built, to colleagues at the Centre for Longitudinal Studies, particularly Peter Shepherd, for support in usin...

Mothers, domestic violence, and child protection: an American legal perspective.

Domestic Employment

Elizabeth Weber Handwerker, Mina M. Kim, and Lowell Mason The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) collects data on multinational companies based in the United States—firms that have full or partial ownership of affiliate companies in foreign countries. However, BEA data offer little detail on the characteristics of these firms’ U.S. employment. Identifying such firms in BLS data can show the geog...

Intermittent child employment and its implications for estimates of child labour.

Using longitudinal data from urban Brazil, the authors track the employment patterns of thousands of children aged 10-16 during four months of their lives in the 1980s and 1990s. The proportion of children who work at some point during a four-month period is substantially higher than the fraction observed working in any single month. The authors calculate an intermittency multiplier to summariz...