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The Intergenerational Persistence of Child Labor

In: Child Labor and Education in Latin America

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  • Patrick M. Emerson
  • André Portela F. Souza

Abstract

Many recent economic studies suggest that child labor is both a result of and a strategy to avoid household poverty. If that is the case, then child labor may be viewed not so much as a problem but as a solution to poverty’s crushing effects. This means that banning child labor may, in fact, harm the very people it attempts to help (Basu and Pham Hoang Van, 1998). This study explores whether using child labor to avoid poverty can cause it to persist through generations of families. If this is indeed the case, policy makers who hope to achieve long-term reductions in child labor are faced with the new challenge of focusing their attention not only on current child laborers, but future generations as well.

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  • Patrick M. Emerson & André Portela F. Souza, 2009. "The Intergenerational Persistence of Child Labor," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Peter F. Orazem & Guilherme Sedlacek & Zafiris Tzannatos (ed.), Child Labor and Education in Latin America, chapter 6, pages 103-115, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-62010-0_7
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230620100_7
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