Child labor and temporary emigration

Gil S. Epstein; Nava Kahana

doi:10.1016/j.econlet.2007.09.047

Child labor and temporary emigration

Gil S. Epstein, Nava Kahana

Department of Economics

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Abstract

We propose to mitigate child labor 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 even upon the return of the emigrant parents.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	545-548
Number of pages	4
Journal	Economics Letters
Volume	99
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2007.09.047
State	Published - Jun 2008

Keywords

Child labor
Temporary emigration

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