Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/34444 
Year of Publication: 
2007
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 3025
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We present a general model of child labor that incorporates the various components presented in the literature as explanations for its existence. Our proposal is to mitigate the phenomenon by encouraging temporary emigration. It emerges that the remittances sent by the emigrating parents might enable not only their children, but also others, to stop working. We show how this equilibrium can be sustained even upon the return of the emigrant parents to their home country.
Subjects: 
Child labor
temporary emigration
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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