Labour Markets in Developing Countries
Labour markets in developing countries differ from those in richer countries in many dimensions. Our research in this area so far has focused on the causes and consequences of child labour in poor countries, education decisions, and trends in supply and demand. Current research in this area includes:
- Marco Manacorda and Florence Kondylis examine the impact of distance from school on children's labour supply decisions in Tanzania in
"School Proximity and Child Labor. Evidence from Rural Tanzania" [Full document in Adobe PDF] Working Paper, August 2006.
- Manacorda and Furio Camillo Rosati examine the labour demand determinants of child labour in Brazil in "Local labor demand and child labor" [Full document in Adobe PDF] UCW Project (Understanding Children's Work - a
joint ILO, World Bank and UNICEF project) Working Paper Series, March 2007.
- Rajeev Dehejia and co-authors find that adults in Tanzania who worked as children are more likely to remain in agricultural jobs and marry earlier, in "Work and Marriage: Child Labor, Marriage Matches, and Bride Prices in Rural Tanzania" [Full document in Adobe PDF] (Rajeev Dehejia, Roberta Gatti and Kathleen Beegle), Working Paper, November 2007.
- Grade repetition in Uruguay causes affected students to drop out of school earlier finds Marco Manacorda in "The Cost of Grade Retention." [Full document in Adobe PDF], Working Paper, 2007.
- In "Changes in Returns to Education in Latin America: the Role of Demand and Supply of Skills" [Full document in Adobe PDF] CEP Discussion Paper No 712, December 2005, Marco Manacorda, Carolina Sanchez-Paramo, and Norbert Schady show that Latin American countries have experienced a strong increase in the demand for skill. However, the increase in the supply of educated workers has been so large that the returns to education have fallen in some countries.
Please contact Marco Manacorda, email
m.manacorda@lse.ac.uk for further details.
Recent publications in this area
- Samuel Berlinski, Sebastian Galiani, and Marco Manacorda "Giving Children a Better Start: Preschool Attendance and School-Age Profiles," Journal of Public Economics 92, June 2008, pp. 1416-1440
- Marco Manacorda "Child Labor and the Labor Supply of Other Household Members: Evidence from 1920s America," American Economic Review, December 2006, 96(5) pp. 1788-1800.
- Kathleen Beegle, Roberta Gatti, and Rajeev Dehejia "Child Labor and Agricultural Shocks," Journal of Development Economics, 81, September 2006, pp. 80-96
