Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/96718 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 8066
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper investigates the labor market effect of international migration on child work in countries of origin. We use an original cross-country survey dataset, which combines information on international migration with detailed individual-level data on child labor at age 5-14 in a wide range of developing countries. By exploiting both within- and cross-country variation and controlling for country fixed effects, we find a strong empirical regularity about the role of international mobility of workers in reducing child labor in disadvantaged households through changes in the local labor market.
Subjects: 
international migration
child labor
factor mobility
cross-country survey data
JEL: 
F22
F1
J61
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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