relationship between the power to coerce and exploitation in a laboratory experiment where a senior and a junior player interact …-compatible questionnaire indicates that the social acceptability of exploitation depends on whether the junior worker can detect she is being … exploited. We also show how a history of exploitation affects future interactions. …

Child labor is often condemned as a form of exploitation. I explore how the notion of exploitation, as used in everyday … language, can be made precise in economic models of child labor. Exploitation is defined relative to a specific social welfare … distinctions that common usage of the term exploitation allows. I resolve this conflict by introducing a welfare function with …