The Supply of Child Labour

Arbeitspapier

The paper develops a theoretical framework, and a diagrammatic apparatus, for explaining the supply of child labour. It examines the effect of credit, insurance, and poverty (defined as more than just low income). It also explains bonded child labour, a modern form of slavery closely associated with the worst forms of child exploitation. The analysis is positive, but provides some of the elements for a normative judgement.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 1114

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity ; Household Production and Intrahousehold Allocation ; Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development ; Labor Standards: Labor Force Composition ; Time Allocation and Labor Supply ; Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth ; Health Behavior
• Subject: child labour ; bonded labour ; education ; health ; credit ; insurance ; poverty ; Kinderarbeit ; Arbeitsangebot ; Haushaltsökonomik ; Armut ; Theorie ; bonded labor

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Cigno, Alessandro
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (where): Bonn
• (when): 2004

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/20349
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET