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Informal institution meets child development : clan culture and child labor in China
Tang, Can; Zhao, Zhong - 2022
Using a national representative sample, the China Family Panel Studies, this paper explores the influences of clan … culture, a hallmark of Chinese cultural history, on the prevalence of child labor in China. We find that clan culture …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013414620
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Child labor in China
Tang, Can; Zhao, Liqiu; Zhao, Zhong - 2016
We present the first systematic study on child labor in China. Child labor is not a negligible social phenomenon in … China; about 7.74% of children aged from 10 to 15 were working in 2010, and they worked for 6.75 hours per day on average … prevalence of child labor in China exhibits significant regional variations. The child labor incidence is correlated with the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011480820
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Trade liberalization and child labor in China
Zhao, Liqiu; Wang, Fei; Zhao, Zhong - 2016
This paper exploits a quasi-natural experiment – the U.S. granting of Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR) to China … after China's accession to the World Trade Organization – to examine whether trade liberalization affects the incidence of … child labor in China. PNTR permanently set U.S. duties on Chinese imports at low Normal Trade Relations (NTR) levels and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011571939
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Free education helps combat child labor? : the effect of a free compulsory education reform in rural China
Tang, Can; Zhao, Liqiu; Zhao, Zhong - 2019
This paper evaluates the effect of a free compulsory education reform in rural China on the incidence of child labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012019315
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Cash transfers and child labour
Hoop, Jacobus de; Rosati, Furio Camillo - 2013
Cash transfer programs are widely used in settings where child labour is prevalent. Even if many of these programs are explicitly implemented to improve children's welfare, in theory their impact on child labour is undetermined. This paper systematically reviews the empirical evidence on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009771742
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Remittances and child labour in Africa : evidence from Burkina Faso
Boutin, Delphine - 2014
This paper explores the effects of remittance receipt on child labour in an African context. We focus on Burkina Faso, a country with a high prevalence of child labour and a high rate of migration. Given the complex relationship between remittance receipt and child labour, our identification...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010360846
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Remittances and child labour in Africa : evidence from Burkina Faso
Bargain, Olivier; Boutin, Delphine - 2014
This paper explores the effects of remittance receipt on child labour in an African context. We focus on Burkina Faso, a country with a high prevalence of child labour and a high rate of migration. Given the complex relationship between remittance receipt and child labour, our identification...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010252636
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Climate vulnerability, communities' resilience and child labour
Boutin, Delphine - 2014
This article clarifies and quantifies the causal impact of climate change vulnerability on child labour incidence and intensity. For this purpose, we create an index of vulnerability to climate change, composed of biophysical vulnerability and communities' resilience. Both, participation to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010419031
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The role of trade and offshoring in the determination of child labour
Cigno, Alessandro; Giovannetti, Giorgia; Sabani, Laura - 2015
Incorporating family decisions in a two-period-model of the world economy, we show that trade liberalization may reduce child labour in developing countries where the initial share of skilled workers in the adult workforce – though not as large as in developed countries – is nonetheless...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010488142
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Does globalisation increase child labour?
Cigno, Alessandro; Rosati, Furio Camillo; Guarcello, Lorenzo - 2002
There is no empirical evidence that trade exposure per se increases child labour. As trade theory and household economics lead us to expect, the cross-country evidence seems to indicate that trade reduces or, at worst, has no significant effect on child labour. Consistently with the theory, a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410919