Intermittent child employment and its implications for estimates of child labour
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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...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Labour Review
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0020-7780,1564-913X
DOI: 10.1111/j.1564-913x.2007.00014.x