Child Labor in Transition in Vietnam

Abstract

Vietnam experienced a dramatic decline in child laborHighlands appear to have missed many of the during the 1 990s.Edmonds and Turk explore this improvements in the 1990s, while children in the rural decline in detail and document the heterogeneity across Mekong and in Provincial Towns have experienced the households in both levels of child labor and in the largest declines in child labor.The results suggest incidence of this decline in child labor.The authors find embedding efforts against child labor within an overall a strong correlation between living standards antipoverty program.The authors find that the opening improvements and child labor so that much of the or closing of household enterprises seems to be variation in declines in child labor can be explained by associated with increases in child labor.So attention variation in living standards improvements.Ethnic should be devoted to the activities of children in the minority children and the children of recent migrants government's current program to stimulate nonfarm appear to remain particularly vulnerable even by the late enterprises.1990s.Children of all ethnicities in the Central This paper-a product of Macroeconomics and Growth, Development Research Group-is part of a larger effort in the group to study household welfare and poverty reduction in Vietnam.Copies of the paper are available free from the World Bank,

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