Child labour Causes, consequences and policies to tackle it

Sustainable Development Goal target 8.7 aims to eradicate child labour in all its forms by 2025. Ten years before this deadline, the objective is far from being achieved since in 2016, about one-in-ten children (152 million in total) aged 5 to 17 were engaged in child labour worldwide, many of them...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Thévenon, Olivier
Other Authors: Edmonds, Eric
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Paris OECD Publishing 2019
Series:OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Papers
Subjects:
Online Access:
Collection: OECD Books and Papers - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
LEADER 02408nma a2200277 u 4500
001 EB002074286
003 EBX01000000000000001214376
005 00000000000000.0
007 cr|||||||||||||||||||||
008 220928 ||| eng
100 1 |a Thévenon, Olivier 
245 0 0 |a Child labour  |h Elektronische Ressource  |b Causes, consequences and policies to tackle it  |c Olivier, Thévenon and Eric, Edmonds 
260 |a Paris  |b OECD Publishing  |c 2019 
300 |a 82 p 
653 |a Employment 
653 |a Social Issues/Migration/Health 
700 1 |a Edmonds, Eric 
041 0 7 |a eng  |2 ISO 639-2 
989 |b OECD  |a OECD Books and Papers 
490 0 |a OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Papers 
028 5 0 |a /10.1787/f6883e26-en 
856 4 0 |a oecd-ilibrary.org  |u https://doi.org/10.1787/f6883e26-en  |x Verlag  |3 Volltext 
082 0 |a 330 
082 0 |a 610 
082 0 |a 304 
520 |a Sustainable Development Goal target 8.7 aims to eradicate child labour in all its forms by 2025. Ten years before this deadline, the objective is far from being achieved since in 2016, about one-in-ten children (152 million in total) aged 5 to 17 were engaged in child labour worldwide, many of them as unpaid family workers in agriculture. Nearly half of the children in child labour were in hazardous work and exposed to serious health and safety risks. Moreover, about one-third of children in child labour do not attend school at all; the others go to school, but not all the time. Children in child labour are more likely to leave school early, before grade completion, and underperform in school tests. This paper reviews child labour trends, and the literature on its causes and consequences. It also discusses policies to combat child labour based on the lessons of the available evidence. Countries must combat child labour by addressing it from all its "demand" and "supply" side dimensions: by strengthening social protection to combat extreme poverty, by investing in the education to make it an affordable alternative to child labour, and by encouraging the diffusion of technologies that make it possible to do without child labour. While most countries have adopted laws that prohibit child labour, the paper argues that countries can do more to enforce these laws and regulations, where necessary strengthen labour inspections and monitoring systems, and promote responsible business practices