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 …

This paper provides a formal dynamic analysis of exploitation, class inequalities and profits. A stylised model of a … existence of exploitation. Second, it is shown that, in a competitive environment, asset inequalities are fundamental for the … emergence of exploitation, but they are not sufficient for its persistence, both in equilibria with accumulation and growth, and …