The Intergenerational Persistence of Child Labor

Patrick M. Emerson and André Portela F. Souza

Chapter 6 in Child Labor and Education in Latin America, 2009, pp 103-115 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Many recent economic studies suggest that child labor is both a result of and a strategy to avoid household poverty. If that is the case, then child labor may be viewed not so much as a problem but as a solution to poverty’s crushing effects. This means that banning child labor may, in fact, harm the very people it attempts to help (Basu and Pham Hoang Van, 1998). This study explores whether using child labor to avoid poverty can cause it to persist through generations of families. If this is indeed the case, policy makers who hope to achieve long-term reductions in child labor are faced with the new challenge of focusing their attention not only on current child laborers, but future generations as well.

Keywords: Labor Market; Human Capital; Child Labor; Human Capital Accumulation; Human Capital Level (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230620100_7

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