The impact of minimum age of employment regulation on child labour and schooling |

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EV Edmonds, M Shrestha

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2012

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Child Labour

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Households

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National

Result on Child labour

Age can explain less than 1 percent of the variation in child participation in paid employment. By contrast, child-invariant household attributes account for 63 percent of the variation in participation in paid employment. While age may explain little of the variation in paid employment, minimum age of employment regulation may simultaneously impact time allocation.

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Binding minimum age of employment regulation shifts child labour from outside to inside the household without changing schooling.

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