The Effect of Emigration on Child Labor

Gil Epstein and Nava Kahana ()
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Nava Kahana: Bar-Ilan University

No 3025, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

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.

Keywords: child labor; temporary emigration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D62 F22 I30 J13 J20 J24 O15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 17 pages
Date: 2007-09
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Published - published in: Economics Letters, 2008, 99 (3), 545-548

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