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Title: Kids at Risk: Childrens Employment In Hazardous Occupations in Brazil
Citation Type: Conference Paper
Publication Year: 2011
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Abstract: Policy and social trends have combined to greatly reduce the percentage of Brazils children engaged in labor force work in recent years. Still, 4.3 million children ages 10 to 17 are estimated to be working in the labor force as of 2008 (15.5 %), according to Brazils statistics ministry, the IBGE (PNAD 2008). While many employed children may be doing tasks that they can accomplish safely, in work that does not conflict with school attendance, many others arefound in types of work identified as ?hazardous? by Brazils Ministry of Labor and Employment. In this paper, we focus on those categories of work in which Brazilian children may be found in large numbers, yet which are likely to harm their ?health, safety or morals? (ILO Convention 182, Article 3). One obvious yet usually overlooked question is how children come to enter such kinds of work. We speculate that characteristics of parents where they live, what labor force work they do, where they do it, and so forth play a very important role in childrens labor force entry and types of first jobs. Since long-term panel studies that could parse out causal pathways do not exist, we use cross-sectional data to document relationships that are suggestive of causality, employing detailed descriptive summary statistics as well as multivariate statistical modeling to better understand which children engage in ?hazardous? work. We also explore whether doing jobs that are considered ?hazardous? for children is associated with disadvantage in any dimensions of well-being for which we have data, when we compare children working in hazardous occupation/industry groups to other children engaged in labor force work.
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Authors: Levison, Deborah; Ferro, Andrea R.; DeGraff, Deborah S.
Conference Name: Population Association of America
Publisher Location: Washington, D.C.
Data Collections: IPUMS International
Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Other
Countries: Brazil