WILL AN INCREASE IN LANDHOLDING SIZE REDUCE CHILD LABOUR IN THE PRESENCE OF UNEMPLOYMENT? A THEORETICAL ANALYSIS

Kamalika Chakraborty and Bidisha Chakraborty

Economic Annals, 2019, vol. 64, issue 221, 85 - 106

Abstract: This paper builds an over-lapping generations household economy model in a rural set up and examines the relationship between landholding and child labour in the presence of unemployment in the manufacturing sector. We find that ir-respective of whether the parents work as agricultural labourers or work on their own land, an increase in landholding size leads to a decline in the child worker’s schooling in the short run and a decline in the growth rate of human capital formation in the long run, but may lead to an increase in steady state human capital in the long run.

Keywords: child labour; human capi-tal; land holding; schooling; unemployment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E24 J22 J24 O15 Q15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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