The present paper has made an attempt to analyze the effects of different trade and investment liberalization policies on the incidence of child labour in a developing economy using a three-sector general equilibrium framework with a non-traded final commodity produced by child labour. The...

This paper is an attempt to analyze the consequence of trade liberalization in agriculture in the developed countries on the incidence of child labour in a developing economy in terms of a three-sector general equilibrium model with informal sectors. Adult labour and child labour are substitutes...

We study how the interaction between economic openness and competitive selection affects the effectiveness of employment (and entry) subsidisation. Within a twocountry heterogeneous-firms model with endogenous labour supply, we find that optimal employment subsidies are always positive even...