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World Report on Child Labor 2015

2015

The report from the International Labour Organization (ILO) presents empirical evidence of how child labor combined with limited education can lead to increased youth vulnerability and greater difficulties in transiting to good jobs. This evidence includes results from the ILO School-to-Work Transition Survey (SWTS) program, an unprecedented data collection effort allowing the analysis of the trajectories followed by youth to enter the world of work in a total of 28 low- and middle-income countries around the world. The report also reviews evidence of how the child labor–youth employment link can operate in the opposite direction, i.e., how the difficulties faced by youth in the labor market can make personal investment in education less attractive as an alternative to child labor earlier in the lifecycle.

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World Report on Child Labour 2015: Paving the Way to Decent Work for Young People. International Labour Organization 2015. http://www.ilo.org/ipec/Informationresources/WCMS_358969/lang--en/index.htm.