Costs and benefits of eliminating child labour in Brazil

The objective of this research is to calculate the economic costs and benefits of the elimination of child labor in Brazil. The framework focuses on three sources of cost: the cost of providing education to all children in lieu of work, the cost of program interventions to alter attitudes and practi...

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Main Authors: Ana Lúcia Kassouf, Peter Dorman, Alexandre Nunes de Almeida
Format: Article
Language:Portuguese
Published: Universidade de São Paulo 2005-09-01
Series:Economia Aplicada
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-80502005000300001