International Labor Mobility and Child Work in Developing Countries

Anna De Paoli and Mariapia Mendola

No 8066, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

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.

Keywords: cross-country survey data; international migration; child labor; factor mobility (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F1 F22 J61 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 42 pages
Date: 2014-03
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-dem, nep-dev, nep-ger, nep-lab and nep-mig
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Forthcoming - published in: World Economy, 2017, 40 (4), 678-702.

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