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The Supply of Child Labour
Cigno, Alessandro - 2004
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261870
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Does Globalisation Increase Child Labour?
Cigno, Alessandro; Rosati, Furio C.; 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/10010262781
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A theoretical analysis of the effects of legislation on marriage, fertility, domestic division of labour, and the education of children
Cigno, Alessandro - 2007
Decisions concerning marriage, fertility, participation, and the education of children are explained using a two …, and (iv) length and effective enforcement of compulsory education. The predictions are consistent with two empirical … countries tend to get less education than boys of the same educational ability, and of why a substantial minority of women in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264246
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The Role of Trade and Offshoring in the Determination of Relative Wages and Child Labour
Cigno, Alessandro; Giovannetti, Giorgia; Sabani, Laura - 2017
Incorporating family decisions in a two-period.model of the world economy, we predict that trade liberalization raises the skill premium and reduces child labour in developing countries where the adult labour force is sufficiently well educated to attract production activities from abroad that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011698716
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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
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Optimal policy towards families with different amounts of social capital, in the presence of asymmetric information and stochastic fertility
Cigno, Alessandro; Luporini, Annalisa - 2006
We examine the effects of differences in social capital on first and second best transfers to families with children, in an asymmetric information context where the number of births, and the future earning capacity of each child that is born, are random variables. The probability that a couple...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261415
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The role of trade and offshoring in the determination of relative wages and child labour
Cigno, Alessandro; Giovannetti, Giorgia; Sabani, Laura - 2017
Incorporating family decisions in a two-period.model of the world economy, we predict that trade liberalization raises the skill premium and reduces child labour in developing countries where the adult labour force is sufficiently well educated to attract production activities from abroad that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011669566
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Optimal Policy Towards Families with Di¤erent Amounts of Social Capital, in the Presence of Asymmetric Information and Stochastic Fertility
Cigno, Alessandro; Luporini, Annalisa - Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic … - 2006
We examine the effects of di¤erences in social capital on first and second best transfers to families with children, in an asym- metric information context where the number of births, and the future earning capacity of each child that is born, are random variables. The probability that a couple...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005292724
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Does Globalisation Increase Child Labour?
Cigno, Alessandro; Rosati, Furio C.; Guarcello, Lorenzo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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/10005703735
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The Supply of Child Labour
Cigno, Alessandro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763893