Luis Felipe López-Calva

El trabajo infantil est lejos de ser un asunto trivial. el derecho a una educaci n adecuada en la infancia y a una juventud sin la obligaci n de trabajar son principios ticos b sicos, y el trabajo infantil puede, en ciertas circunstancias, disminuir los salarios de los adultos y crear un c rculo vicioso entre el trabajo infantil y la pobreza. Este documento realiza una revisi n de las teor as m s relevantes y de los hallazgos emp ricos que rodean la econom a del trabajo infantil. Su objetivo es proporcionar las pautas Para crear pol ticas efectivas, desacreditar los mitos de la intervenci n legislativa y las consecuencias negativas del trabajo infantil, adem s de ofrecer a los activistas y a los tomadores de decisiones un mejor entendimiento acerca de este tema.

teoría y lecciones de la América Latina

Trabajo infantil

Nora Claudia Lustig

Latin America is often singled out for its high and persistent income inequality. Toward the end of the 1990s, however, income concentration began to fall across the region. Of the seventeen countries for which comparable data are available, twelve have experienced a decline, particularly since 2000. This book is among the first efforts to understand what happened in these countries and why. Led by editors Felipe López-Calva and Nora Lustig, a panel of distinguished economists undertakes in-depth analyses of Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, and Peru. In addition, they provide essential background in the form of overviews of the relationship between markets and inequality, the political economy of redistribution, and the evolution of income inequality in the advanced industrialized economies. Two factors account for much of the decline in inequality: a decrease in the wage gap between skilled and low-skilled labor, and an increase in government transfers targeted to the poor. Thanks to the timeliness and sophistication of these essays, Declining Inequality in Latin America is likely to become a standard reference in its field.

Luis Felipe López-Calva

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