Is child work necessary?

被引：24

作者：

Bhalotra, Sonia ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Bristol, Dept Econ, Bristol, Avon, England

来源：

OXFORD BULLETIN OF ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS | 2007年 / 69卷 / 01期

基金：

英国经济与社会研究理事会;

关键词：

D O I：

10.1111/j.1468-0084.2006.00435.x

中图分类号：

F [经济];

学科分类号：

02 ;

摘要：

This article investigates the hypothesis that child labour is compelled by poverty. It shows that a testable implication of this hypothesis is that the wage elasticity of child labour supply is negative. Using a large household survey for rural Pakistan, labour supply models for boys and girls in wage work are estimated. Conditioning on non-labour income and a range of demographic variables, the article finds a negative wage elasticity for boys and an elasticity that is insignificantly different from zero for girls. Thus, while boys appear to work on account of poverty compulsions, the evidence for girls is ambiguous.

引用

页码：29 / 55

页数：27

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