We examine the interaction between credit markets, trade sanctions and the incidence of
child labour in a two-good, two-period model with unequally wealthy households. Both …

Most studies of the determination of executive compensation are based on the experience of
developed countries, and mainly focus on Chief Executive Officer (CEO) compensation …

Despite a growing number of empirical works on the shadow economy and poverty, the
bidirectional causality between these two phenomena has been a relatively neglected area …

This paper examines the impact of the program Seguro de Capacitación y Empleo (SCE)
implemented to provide support in skills upgrading, job seeking, and job placement to …

We analyze gender bias in school enrollment by developing a two‐period model where
women become part of extended families of their in‐laws. Each family decides how many …

ABSTRACT A recent theoretical literature has linked reductions in income inequality to
reductions in child labor in countries that are relatively well-off, but has not explored how …

In a model in which credit markets play a crucial role, we examine two policy options for
reducing child labour,'food for education'and 'investment in education quality,'With an …

This paper is one of the first comprehensive attempts to compare earnings in urban China
and India over the recent period. While both economies have grown considerably, we …

Parental education has been used as an instrument in the earnings equation to deal with the
endogeneity problem of education. Recently, however, many have found that parental …

We examine the interaction between credit markets, trade sanctions and the incidence of
child labour in a two good, two period model with unequally wealthy households. Compared …