Social Globalization and Child Labor

Heather Congdon Fors

No 533, Working Papers in Economics from University of Gothenburg, Department of Economics

Abstract: In recent years, a growing number of authors have turned their focus to the question of why children work. While much of the research focuses on household level factors, macroeconomic factors have gained increasing attention. This is particularly true in the case of globalization. The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the literature on the role of globalization in child labor by examining a specific aspect of globalization: social globalization. The results of the empirical analysis indicate that social globalization does have a significant impact on the average incidence of child labor in the cross-country sample of developing countries.

Keywords: child labor; globalization; norms (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J20 O11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 33 pages
Date: 2012-05-07
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-dev, nep-lab and nep-lma
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