Does Child Labor Decline with Improving Economic Status?
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From 1993 to 1997, GDP per capita in Vietnam grew by between 6 and 7 percent annually. Child labor declined by 28 percent over this period. Using a simple, nonparametric decomposition, I investigate the relationship between improvements in per capita expenditure and child labor with a panel dataset of Vietnamese households that spans this episode of growth. I find that improvements in per capit...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Human Resources
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0022-166X,1548-8004
DOI: 10.3368/jhr.xl.1.77