Does Globalisation Increase Child Labour?

Alessandro Cigno, Furio Rosati and Lorenzo Guarcello

No 470, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: There is no empirical evidence that trade exposure per se increases child labour. As trade theory and household economics lead us to expect, the cross-country evidence seems to indicate that trade reduces or, at worst, has no significant effect on child labour. Consistently with the theory, a comparatively well educated labour force, and active social policies, appear to be conducive to a reduction in child labour. For countries with a largely uneducated workforce, the problem is not so much globalisation, as being allowed to take part in it.

Keywords: education; globalisation; child labour; skill premium; trade; health (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D13 F12 I20 J13 J24 O15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 22 pages
Date: 2002-04
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Published - published in: World Development, 2002, 30 (9), 1579-1589

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