Child Labour: Insights from an Agricultural Household Model

Diego Angemi
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Diego Angemi: Centro Studi Luca d\'Agliano

No 315, Development Working Papers from Centro Studi Luca d'Agliano, University of Milano

Abstract: This manuscript investigates the extent to which children contribute to the household’s agricultural activities. The conclusion that children play an important role in the farming activities of Ugandan agricultural households is supported by two key findings: (i) Child labour accounts for approimately 9% of the household’s annual agricultural earnings; and (ii) on the bases that most child labour is performed on the family farm and smoothly functioning labour markets are rare, land ownership increases the household’s demand for child labour in agricultural activities.

Keywords: Child labour; labour market; agricultural earnings; land ownership (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J22 O12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 56
Date: 2011-09-06
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-agr, nep-dev and nep-lab
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