Child labor in Cote d'Ivoire: incidence and determinants (English)

Child labor in Cote d'Ivoire increased in the 1980s because of a severe economic crisis. Two out of three urban children aged 7 to 17 work; half of them also attend school. In rural areas, more than four out of five children work, but only a third of them manage to combine work with schooling. Full-time work is less prevalent, but not negligible. Roughly 7 percent of urban children work full time (an average 46 hours a week). More than a third of...
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Grootaert,Christiaan N..

Child labor in Cote d'Ivoire: incidence and determinants (English). Policy, Research working paper ; no. WPS 1905 Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/313851468746804125

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