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Efeitos do aumento da idade mínima legal no trabalho dos brasileiros de 14 e 15 anos

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  • FERRO, Andrea Rodrigues
  • Kassouf, Ana Lucia

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In 1998 the child labor legislation was amended restricting the employment to minors under sixteen instead of fourteen. Using data from household surveys (PNAD) it is possible to observe a decline in the percentage of 14 and 15 year-old children working in the decades. This paper examines whether a federal law restricting the employment of child labor contributed to this decline. Using a probit model and pooling the cross-sectional data from 1995 to 2003, we observe statistically significant coefficients for the variable representing the change in the legislation for boys and girls in the urban and rural areas. Therefore, it can be inferred that the legislation contributed to a decrease in the percentage of teenagers working in the labor market, although it did not eliminate child labor.

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  • FERRO, Andrea Rodrigues & Kassouf, Ana Lucia, 2005. "Efeitos do aumento da idade mínima legal no trabalho dos brasileiros de 14 e 15 anos," Brazilian Journal of Rural Economy and Sociology (Revista de Economia e Sociologia Rural-RESR), Sociedade Brasileira de Economia e Sociologia Rural, vol. 43(2), pages 1-23, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:rdecag:156205
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.156205
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    1. Olivier Bargain & Delphine Boutin, 2021. "Minimum Age Regulation and Child Labor: New Evidence from Brazil," The World Bank Economic Review, World Bank, vol. 35(1), pages 234-260.
    2. Rosati, Furio C. & Dema, Guillermo., 2010. "Tendencias en la participación de los niños en la producción económica y el trabajo infantil en la región América Latina y el Caribe panorama regional," ILO Working Papers 994683933402676, International Labour Organization.
    3. Ucw, 2011. "Understanding the Brazilian success in reducing child labour: empirical evidence and policy lessons. Drawing policy lessons from the Brazilian experience," UCW Working Paper 55, Understanding Children's Work (UCW Programme).
    4. L. Guarcello & S. Lyon, 2003. "Children's work and water access in Yemen," UCW Working Paper 53, Understanding Children's Work (UCW Programme).
    5. Rosati, Furio C. & Dema, Guillermo., 2010. "Trends in children's employment and child labour in the Latin America and Caribbean region regional overview," ILO Working Papers 994683923402676, International Labour Organization.
    6. repec:ilo:ilowps:468392 is not listed on IDEAS
    7. Mazzutti, Caio Cícero Toledo Piza da Costa, 2016. "Three essays on the causal impacts of child labour laws in Brazil," Economics PhD Theses 0616, Department of Economics, University of Sussex Business School.
    8. Caio Piza & André Portela Souza, 2017. "The Causal Impacts of Child Labor Law in Brazil: Some Preliminary Findings," The World Bank Economic Review, World Bank, vol. 30(Supplemen), pages 137-144.
    9. repec:ilo:ilowps:468393 is not listed on IDEAS

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