Understanding child labour beyond the standard economic assumption of monetary poverty
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Keywords
Child labour; Poverty; Agriculture; Africa; Child work; Ghana; Mixed methods; Methodology;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D13 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Household Production and Intrahouse Allocation
- I31 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - General Welfare, Well-Being
- J23 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Labor Demand
- J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AFR-2018-08-13 (Africa)
- NEP-HME-2018-08-13 (Heterodox Microeconomics)
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