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Child Labor, Schooling, and Poverty in Latin America

In: Child Labor and Education in Latin America

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  • Guilherme Sedlacek
  • Suzanne Duryea
  • Nadeem Ilahi
  • Masaru Sasaki

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One of the challenges in designing policies to combat child labor is the puzzling finding from chapter 1 that as economic growth progresses, the pace of reductions in child labor appears to slow. Consequently, policies that raise per capita income may not, by themselves, lower the incidence of child labor. If they do lower child labor, the reductions may only occur over a period of decades. This appears to be the current challenge to reducing child labor in Latin America, where per capita income is now high enough that child labor has become relatively insensitive to further income gains.

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  • Guilherme Sedlacek & Suzanne Duryea & Nadeem Ilahi & Masaru Sasaki, 2009. "Child Labor, Schooling, and Poverty in Latin America," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Peter F. Orazem & Guilherme Sedlacek & Zafiris Tzannatos (ed.), Child Labor and Education in Latin America, chapter 2, pages 33-51, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-62010-0_3
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230620100_3
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