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43. Blanchflower, Oswald, and Stutzer 2001. More recent (2005) data of the International Social Survey Programme show similar patterns. 44. WDR team estimates from the 2010 Life in Transitions Survey. 45. Banerjee and Duflo 2011; Perry and others 2007. 46. Banerjee and Duflo 2011. Although, it is not always the case that the self-employed always report lower well-being. In their study from Ghana, Falco and others 2012 for the WDR 2013 find that informal firm owners who employ others are on average substantially happier than formal workers. 47. Based on an update by the authors Chen and Ravallion 2010. 48. World Bank 2011b. 49. Guscina 2006; Lübker 2007; Rodriguez and Jayadev 2010. 50. Bentolila and Saint-Paul 2003; Freeman 2008. 51. International Labour Office database on labor statistics, Laborsta, http://laborsta.ilo.org/. 52. The definition of “private sector” in China is broad and sometimes not clearly defined in official statistics. There is differentiation between what are labeled “private firms” (a profit-making unit invested in and established by natural persons or controlled by persons hiring more than seven workers) and “individual firms” (those with fewer than eight employees). Foreigninvested firms and collectives are not part of the private sector in official statistics. For more details, see Kanamori and Zhao (2004). 53. Nabli, Silva-Jaurengui, and Faruk Aysan 2008. 54. Assaad 2012; Assaad and Barsoum 2007. 55. Mryyan 2012. 56. For a study of previous crises, see Fallon and Lucas (2002). For the food price crisis, see Ivanic and Martin (2008). 57. ILO 2012a. 58. Giles and others 2012 for the World Development Report 2013. These losses were temporary and currently worker shortages are experienced instead. 59. Freije-Rodriguez, Lopez-Acevedo, and RodriguezOreggia 2011. 60. McCulloch, Grover, and Suryahadi 2011. 61. Cho and Newhouse 2010. 62. Khanna, Newhouse, and Paci 2010. 63. Khanna, Newhouse, and Paci 2010; World Bank 2012. 64. ILO and World Bank 2012. 65. ILO and World Bank 2012; Robalino, Newhouse, and Rother forthcoming. 66. Bell and Blanchflower 2011; Farber 2011. 67. World Bank 2011c. 68. World Bank 2011a. 69. Narayan, Pritchett, and Kapoor 2009, 19.
70. Bhatt 2006, 17. 71. Article 2, ILO 2007. Also see UN (2009). 72. Article 9, ILO 1982, http://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/ groups/public/---dgreports/---stat/documents/ normativeinstrument/wcms_087481.pdf. 73. UN 2009, 6–7. 74. ILO 2009b, 42. 75. INEGI 2011. 76. UN 1948, http://www.un.org/en/documents/ udhr/, article 23 (1). 77. ILO 1998. 78. The core international labor standards are the subject of eight conventions covering the four areas: Convention 87 (1948), the Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organize Convention; Convention 98 (1949), the Right to Organize and Collective Bargaining Convention; Convention 29 (1930), the Forced Labour Convention; Convention 105 (1957), the Abolition of Forced Labour Convention; Convention 100 (1951), the Equal Remuneration Convention; Convention 111 (1958), the Discrimination (Employment and Occupation) Convention; Convention 138 (1973), the Minimum Age Convention; and Convention 182 (1999), the Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention. See “Conventions,” NORMLEX Database: Information on International Labour Standards, International Labour Organization, Geneva. ILO (2012). http:// www.ilo.org/dyn/normlex/en/. 79. Andrees and Belser 2009; ILO 2009c; ILO 2012b. 80. Dillon and others 2012. 81. Basu 1999; Basu and Tzannatos 2003; Cigno and Rosati 2005; Edmonds 2008. 82. Del Carpio and Loayza 2012; Hazarika and Sarangi 2008. 83. Edmonds (2008) offers a review of the theoretical and empirical evidence on child labor.
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