Cigno, Alessandro () (University of Florence, CESifo, CHILD and IZA, Bonn) Rosati, Furio C. (University of Sassari, University of Rome "Tor Vergata" and UNICEF) Guarcello, Lorenzo (UNICEF)
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There is no empirical evidence that trade exposure per se increases child labour. As trade theory and household economics lead us to expect, the cross-country evidence seems to indicate that trade reduces or, at worst, has no significant effect on child labour. Consistently with the theory, a comparatively well educated labour force, and active social policies, appear to be conducive to a reduction in child labour. For countries with a largely uneducated workforce, the problem is not so much globalisation, as being allowed to take part in it.
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Paper provided by Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in its series IZA Discussion Papers with number
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