Child labor and temporary emigration

C-Tier
Journal: Economics Letters
Year: 2008
Volume: 99
Issue: 3
Pages: 545-548

Authors (2)

Score contribution per author:

0.503 = (α=2.01 / 2 authors) × 0.5x C-tier

α: calibrated so average coauthorship-adjusted count equals average raw count

Abstract

We propose to mitigate child labor by encouraging temporary emigration. It emerges that the remittances sent by the emigrating parents might enable not only their children, but also others, to stop working even upon the return of the emigrant parents.

Technical Details

RePEc Handle
repec:eee:ecolet:v:99:y:2008:i:3:p:545-548
Journal Field
General
Author Count
2
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2026-01-25