The Economics of Child Labour

ISBN-13: 9780199264452 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 264 str.

Alessandro Cigno; Furio Camillo Rosati

Opis

In this book Cigno and Rosati develop a theoretical framework within which to analyze decisions about child labour, drawing on empirical studies and making policy recommendations. They address such issues as parental decisions, gender, education, health, fertility and infant mortality, and children living alone; provide studies of child labour in India, Vietnam, and Morocco; and discuss policies on compulsion and prohibition, redistribution, education, health, and the labor market.

Recenzje

Alessandro Cigno and Furio Camillo Rosati convincingly demonstrate multiple policy choices that could, at the very least, reduce the worst forms of child labor...Overall, this book is a much-needed contribution to the body of work that examines child labor. The transparent methodology and econometric details found in the text and appendices lend credibility to the author's work.

O autorze

Alessandro Cigno is Professor of Economics at the University of Florence, President of CHILD, Fellow of CESifo and IZA, and an editor of the Journal of Population Economics. He has been a professor at the universities of Pisa, Hull and Birmingham. His visiting appointments include Munich, Paris (Science-Po), Argentina (Salta), Guatemala (Landivar), Wisconsin (Madison) and California (Santa Barbara). He has consulted for the British Council (India), Cooperazione Italiana, the EU Commission, UNICEF and the World Bank. Furio Camillo Rosati is currently professor of Public Economics at the University of Rome "Tor Vergata" and director of the joint ILO- World Bank - UNICEF research project "Understanding Children's Work". He has worked extensively with several international organizations including the ILO, the EU and the World Bank.