Intermittent child employment and its implications for estimates of child labour.
Intermittent child employment and its implications for estimates of child labour.
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1564-913x.2007.00014.x
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发表时间：
2007-01-01
影响因子：
1.5
通讯作者：
Duryea, Suzanne
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作者：
Levison, Deborah;Hoek, Jasper;Duryea, Suzanne
使用巴西城市的纵向数据，作者追踪了20世纪80年代和90年代数千名10-16岁儿童在生命中四个月的就业模式。在四个月期间的某个时候工作的儿童比例大大高于观察到的在任何一个月工作的比例。作者计算了一个间歇性乘数，以总结四个月期间一个参考周与四个参考周的就业率之间的差异。他们的结论是，间歇性就业是童工的一个重要特征，必须认识到这一点，才能充分了解童工的就业情况，并查明童工的身份。
Using longitudinal data from urban Brazil, the authors track the employment patterns of thousands of children aged 10-16 during four months of their lives in the 1980s and 1990s. The proportion of children who work at some point during a four-month period is substantially higher than the fraction observed working in any single month. The authors calculate an intermittency multiplier to summarize the difference between employment rates in one reference week vs. four reference weeks over a four-month period. They conclude that intermittent employment is a crucial characteristic of child labour which must be recognized to capture levels of child employment adequately and identify child workers.