The Effect of ILO Minimum Age Conventions on Child Labour and School Attendance

Boockmann, Bernhard

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URL:	http://ub-madoc.bib.uni-mannheim.de/715
URN:	urn:nbn:de:bsz:180-madoc-7152
Document Type:	Working paper
Year of publication:	2004
The title of a journal, publication series:	None
Publication language:	English
Institution:	Sonstige Einrichtungen > ZEW - Leibniz-Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung
MADOC publication series:	Veröffentlichungen des ZEW (Leibniz-Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung) > ZEW Discussion Papers
Subject:	330 Economics
Classification:	JEL: O190 J210 J820 ,
Subject headings (SWD):	Internationale Arbeitsorganisation , Kinderarbeit , Schulbesuch
Abstract:	Child labour has always been one of the core concerns of the International Labour Organisation (ILO). In this paper, we investigate whether ILO conventions have contributed to reducing the scale of the problem. We use two approaches to answering the question. Evidence based on country-level data shows that, by 1990, countries having ratified ILO conventions were in no different position concerning child labour than nonratifying states. Using individual-level data on school attendance from the 1990s, there is little evidence for an increase in school attendance for children protected by ILO convention No. 138 as compared to unprotected children.
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