Published in:University of Milan Bicocca Department of Economics, Management and Statistics Working Paper ; No. 231
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1 Online-Ressource (64 p)
Language:
English
DOI:
10.2139/ssrn.2295128
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Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments June 1, 2012 erstellt
Description:
Global international migration may influence child labor through a labor market effect. We empirically investigate this issue by using an original cross-country survey dataset, which combines information on international emigration flows with detailed individual-level data on child labor at age 5-15 in a wide range of developing countries. By using variation in the emigration supply shocks across labor market units defi ned on the basis of both geography and skill, we estimate a set of child labor equations where the variable of interest is the interactive e¤ect between parental skill and country-level emigration shocks. We measure the latter through different indicators including a direct measure of the relative skill composition of emigrants relative to the resident population in the country of origin. Overall, after controlling for a large set of individual-level characteristics, remittances, and country fi xed effects, our findings are consistent with predictions and show that international out-migration may signifi cantly reduce child labor in disadvantaged households through changes in the local labor market