Wage Traps as a Cause of Illiteracy, Child Labor, and Extreme Poverty
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- Gärtner, Dennis L. & Gärtner, Manfred, 2011. "Wage traps as a cause of illiteracy, child labor, and extreme poverty," Research in Economics, Elsevier, vol. 65(3), pages 232-242, September.
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Keywords
Subsistence income; labor supply; poverty; child labor; wage trap; market failure; development; growth;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J2 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor
- J4 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Particular Labor Markets
- O11 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-LAB-2008-02-02 (Labour Economics)
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