A Theory of Exploitative Child Labor

Rogers, Carol Ann; Swinnerton, Kenneth A.

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“…Most closely related to our work dealing with trafficking policy formation, Rogers and Swinnerton (2008) provides theoretical justification for a complete ban on exploitative labor, where employment is made possible only by the deception of firms concerning the true nature of work. Friebel and Guriev (2006) examines the role of deportation policies on debt-financed illegal immigration in an innovative model where wealth constrained individuals repay their debt to smugglers by entering into servitude contracts, and 5 where such servitude contracts are easier to enforce in illicit sectors of employment.…”

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Transnational Trafficking, Law Enforcement, and Victim Protection: A Middleman Trafficker’s Perspective

Akee

Basu

Bedi

et al. 2014

The Journal of Law and Economics

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Transnational Trafficking, Law Enforcement, and Victim Protection: A Middleman Trafficker’s Perspective

Akee

Basu

Bedi

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The Journal of Law and Economics

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“…Altogether then, SIMPOC estimates that 178.9 million children are engaged in worst forms of child labor A simple analytical model based on Dessy and Pallage (2005) and Rogers and Swinnerton (2008) will help fix ideas in our discussion of the determinants of entry into worst forms. The first issue that any framework of child time allocation must address is the question of who is making decisions.…”

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“…* w For analytical clarity, treat the disutility from having the child involved in a worst form as additively separable from the utility owing to the other decisions the agent makes with their income : The disutility of participation in a worst form τ is known with certainty. Rogers and Swinnerton (2008) emphasize that uncertainty and poor information may be important in explaining why some children end up in worst forms. It is possible to conceptualize τ as a parameter that reflects the risk perceived by the agent and thereby interpret this set-up within their model.…”

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Selection into worst forms of child labor

Edmonds

2010

Research in Labor Economics

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“…In fact, the important question of why the worst forms of child labour exist is still unanswered. Rogers and Swinnerton (2002) is the only other paper to our knowledge trying to address this issue. These authors emphasise the case where parents have incomplete information on the type of work (hazardous or non-hazardous) in which their child is involved.…”

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A Theory of the Worst Forms of Child Labour

Dessy

Pallage

2004

The Economic Journal

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Although intuitive and morally compelling, a ban on the worst forms of child labour in poor countries is unlikely to be welfare improving. We show that harmful forms of child labour have an economic role: by maintaining wages for child labour high enough, they allow human capital accumulation in poor countries. Unless appropriate mechanisms are designed to mitigate the decline in child labour wages caused by reduced employment options for children, a ban on harmful forms of child labour will likely prove undesirable. We perform our analysis within a simple model of parental investment in children's education.

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A Theory of Exploitative Child Labor

Cited by 16 publications

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Transnational Trafficking, Law Enforcement, and Victim Protection: A Middleman Trafficker’s Perspective

Transnational Trafficking, Law Enforcement, and Victim Protection: A Middleman Trafficker’s Perspective

Selection into worst forms of child labor

A Theory of the Worst Forms of Child Labour

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