Does child labor reduce youth crime?

Kyklos

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 559-573

  Horowitz, Andrew W ^a   Trivitt, Julie R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILD LABOR; CRIME; EMPLOYMENT; LABOR POLICY;

LACUNA;

EID: 35548943949     PISSN: 00235962     EISSN: 14676435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-6435.2007.00385.x     Document Type: Article

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