Economics Of Child Labour

Author : Alessandro Cigno
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0199264457
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Economics of Child Labour written by Alessandro Cigno and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2005-07-28 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book provides a blend of theory, empirical analysis and policy discussion. The authors develop a comprehensive theory of child labour, and related variables such as fertility, and infant mortality. The effects of trade are considered and country studies are included to illustrate and test different aspects of the theory in different geographical contexts."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Kappadath Parameswara Kannan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Economics of Child Labour written by Kappadath Parameswara Kannan and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributed articles presented at the 83rd Annual Conference of Indian Economic Association held at Jammu during 2000-2001.

Author : Alessandro Cigno
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191532606
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Economics of Child Labour written by Alessandro Cigno and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2005-07-28 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children throughout the world are engaged in a great number of activities classifiable as work. These range from relatively harmless, even laudable, activities like helping parents in their domestic chores, to morally and physically dangerous ones like soldiering and prostitution. If we leave out the former, we are left with what are generally called "economic" activities. Only a small minority, less than 4 percent of all working children, are estimated to be engaged in what ILO defines as the "unconditional" worst forms of child labour. The absolute number of children estimated to be engaged in the latter is, however, a stunning 8.4 million. Should we only be concerned about the worst forms of child labour? Most forms of child labour other than the worst ones have valuable learning-by-doing elements. Furthermore, child labour produces current income. If the family is credit rationed, child labour relaxes the liquidity constraint and increases current consumption. There is thus a trade-off between present and future consumption. To the extent that current consumption has a positive effect on future health (hence, on the child's future earning capacity and, more generally, utility), this trade-off may be lower than one might think. This book provides a blend of theory, empirical analysis and policy discussion. The first three chapters develop a fairly comprehensive theory of child labour, and related variables such as fertility, and infant mortality. Chapter 4, concerned with the effects of trade, contains both theory and cross-country empirical evidence. The remaining chapters are country studies, aimed at illustrating and testing different aspects of the theory in different geographical contexts. These chapters apply the latest developments in microeconometric methodology for dealing with endogeneity, unobserved heterogeneity, and the evaluation of public intervention.

Author : Biswajit Chatterjee
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9811381992
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Economics of Child Labour written by Biswajit Chatterjee and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-05-31 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the effectiveness of trade and non-trade policies to combat the menace of child labour. Although it has decreased on the global scale in recent years, child labour still remains high, particularly in the developing countries. Keeping in mind the estimated extent of child labour in different regions around the globe, the book offers a detailed critical review of both theoretical and empirical literature on the topic as well as the policies to reduce the incidence of child labour. It also develops a general equilibrium model to demonstrate the possible effects of growth-promoting, non-trade policies, as opposed to direct trade policies, on child labour employment mitigation. The book argues that of the non-trade policies, the introduction of compulsory education appears to be an effective instrument for curtailing the child labour problem when families receive targeted subsidies for sending their children to school. It also shows that appropriately designed and targeted education subsidies can reduce the incidence of child labour and that social protection measures, such as subsidies on school enrolment, also tend to have a positive impact. The book not only opens up research topics for academicians but is also a valuable resource for policy makers.

Author : Sarbajit Chaudhuri
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1315397498
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Economics of Child Labour in the Era of Globalization written by Sarbajit Chaudhuri and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-10-14 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children in poor countries are subjected to exploitation characterized by low wages and long hours of work, as well as by unclean, unhygienic and unsafe working and living conditions, and, more importantly, by deprivation from education, all of which hampers their physical and mental development. Child labour is a complex issue, and clearly it has no simple solution. This book sheds some understanding of its root causes. The book attempts to delve into many of the important theoretical aspects of child labour and suggests policies that could indeed be useful in dealing with the problem under diverse situations using alternative multisector general equilibrium models.

Author : Rossana Galli
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Economic Impact of Child Labour written by Rossana Galli and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Hugh D Hindman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315290839
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Child Labor written by Hugh D Hindman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-16 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite its decline throughout the advanced industrial nations, child labor remains one of the major social, political, and economic concerns of modern history, as witnessed by the many high-profile stories on child labor and sweatshops in the media today. This work considers the issue in three parts. The first section discusses child labor as a social and economic problem in America from an historical and theoretical perspective. The second part presents child labor as National Child Labor Committee investigators found it in major American industries and occupations, including coal mines, cotton textile mills, and sweatshops in the early 1900s. Finally, the concluding section integrates these findings and attempts to apply them to child labor problems in America and the rest of the world today.

Author : Sarbajit Chaudhuri
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131539748X
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Economics of Child Labour in the Era of Globalization written by Sarbajit Chaudhuri and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-10-14 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children in poor countries are subjected to exploitation characterized by low wages and long hours of work, as well as by unclean, unhygienic and unsafe working and living conditions, and, more importantly, by deprivation from education, all of which hampers their physical and mental development. Child labour is a complex issue, and clearly it has no simple solution. This book sheds some understanding of its root causes. The book attempts to delve into many of the important theoretical aspects of child labour and suggests policies that could indeed be useful in dealing with the problem under diverse situations using alternative multisector general equilibrium models.

Author : M.L. Narasaiah
Publisher : Discovery Publishing House
ISBN 13 : 9788183560641
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Child Labour and Education written by M.L. Narasaiah and published by Discovery Publishing House. This book was released on 2006 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents: Stop Child Labour, Child Labour in Weaving Industry, Child Labour: Targeting the Intolerable, Children s Health and the Environment, Helping Your Child Learn, For a Broader Approach to Education, Population Growth and Education, Will Education go to Market, Private Education, Corporate Ambitions in Education, Promotion of Higher Education in Research, Wanted: An New Deal for the Universities, Wiring up the Ivory Towers, Shaking the Ivory Towers, Shaking the Ivory Tower, Solving the Unemployment Problem by Looking Beyond the Job, Population Growth and Jobs, Beyond Economics, Violence in School: A World Wide Affair, Rural Poverty in India, Employment and Poverty Alleviation, Women and Poverty, Towards a New Policy on Poverty Reduction, Technological Entrepreneurship: The New Force for Economic Growth, Population Growth and Income, What was Wrong with Structural Adjustment, Can Economic Growth Reduce Poverty? New Findings on Inequality, Economic Growth and Poverty, Democracy and Poverty: Are they Interlinked?, Unemployment in the Poor and Rich Worlds, Corruption: Where to Draw the Line?, Social Summit, Trade and Labour Standards: Using the Wrong Instruments for the Right Cause, Employment and Promoting Ecology.

Author : Carolyn Tuttle
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 0429701500
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hard At Work In Factories And Mines written by Carolyn Tuttle and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2021-11-28 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children have worked for centuries and continue to work. The history of the economic development of Europe and North America includes numerous instances of child labor. Manufacturers in England, France, Belgium, Germany, and Prussia as well as the United States used child labor during the initial stages of industrialization. In addition, child labor prevails currently in many industries in the Third World. This book examines the explanations for child labor in an economic context. A model of the labor market for children is constructed using the new economics of the family framework to derive the supply of child labor and the traditional labor theory of marginal productivity to derive the demand for child labor. The model is placed into a historical context and is used to test the existing supply-and-demand-induced explanations for an increase in child labor during the British Industrial Revolution. Evidence on the extent of childrens employment, their specific tasks and trends in their wages from the textile industry and mining industry is used to support the argument that it was technological innovation which created a demand for child labor. Certain mechanical inventions and process innovations increased the demand for child labor in three ways: increasing number of assistants needed; increasing the substitutability between children and adults, and creating work situations that only children could fill. Specific innovations in the production of textiles and in the extraction of coal, copper and tin are highlighted to show how they favored the use of child workers over adult workers. The book concludes with a look at the current situations in developing countries where child labor is prevalent. Considerable insight is gained on the role of child labor in economic development when this historical model is applied to the contemporary situation.