Climate Vulnerability, Communities' Resilience and Child Labour

Delphine Boutin

No 8567, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: This article clarifies and quantifies the causal impact of climate change vulnerability on child labour incidence and intensity. For this purpose, we create an index of vulnerability to climate change, composed of biophysical vulnerability and communities' resilience. Both, participation to economic activities and to household chores have been taken into account. We find that climate vulnerability negatively affects child labour incidence and intensity, while has no significant impact on household chores. We conclude that child labour is an adjustment variable to local labour market conditions, not correlated with communities' resilience.

Keywords: Malawi; climate change; vulnerability; child labour (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J22 J43 O55 Q54 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 18 pages
Date: 2014-10
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Published - published in: Revue d’Economie Politique, 2014, 124 (4), 625-638

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