The Causal Impacts of Child Labor Law in Brazil
This paper investigates the causal impact of the change in law of December 1998 that increased the minimum legal age of entry into the labor force from 14 to 16. The authors used a difference-in-differences (DD) approach to estimate the impact of this law change on labor force participation rates as a whole, as well as for the formal and informal sectors separately. The results showed that the ban reduced participation rates for boys by 4 percentage points and that this effect was mostly driven by the informal sector. The authors found no effect on girls.
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| Format: | Journal Article biblioteca |
| Language: | English |
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Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank
2016-04-10
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| Subjects: | LAW, CHILD LABOR, LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION, INFORMAL SECTOR, COMPULSORY SCHOOL ATTENDANCE, LABOR MARKET, LABOR POLICY, |
| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/676961565589855700/The-Causal-Impacts-of-Child-Labor-Law-in-Brazil-Some-Preliminary-Findings http://hdl.handle.net/10986/32239 |
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