Abstract
Global international migration may in‡uence child labor through a labor mar- ket eect. We empirically investigate this issue by using an original cross-country survey dataset, which combines information on international emigration ‡ows with detailed individual-level data on child labor at age 5-15 in a wide range of developing countries. By using variation in the emigration supply shocks across labor market units de…ned on the basis of both geography and skill, we estimate a set of child labor equations where the variable of interest is the interactive eect between parental skill and country-level emigration shocks. We measure the latter through dierent indicators including a direct measure of the relative skill compostion of emigrants relative to the resident population in the country of origin. Overall, after controlling for a large set of individual-level characteristics, remittances, and country …xed eects, our …ndings are consistent with predic- tions and show that international out-migration may signi…cantly reduce child labor in disadvantaged households through changes in the local labor market.
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