Child Labor, Idiosyncratic Shocks, and Social Policy

Alice Fabre and Stephane Pallage

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Abstract: In this paper, we measure the welfare effects of banning child labor in an economy with strong idiosyncratic shocks to employment. We then design two different policies: an unemployment insurance program and a universal basic income system. We show that they can often lead to an endogenous elimination of child labor. We work within a dynamic, general equilibrium model calibrated to South Africa in the 1990s.

Keywords: Child labor; Idiosyncratic shocks; Unemployment insurance; Universal basic income; Heterogeneous agents; Child labor ban (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D58 E20 J65 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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