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Globalisation Can Help Reduce Child Labour

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  • Alessandro Cigno

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Whether globalisation is good or bad for child labour depends on initial conditions and domestic policies. In countries with comparatively large endowments of educated workers, pulling down trade barriers is a policy that, together with measures aimed at relaxing the household liquidity constraint, would help reduce child labour. By contrast, in countries with a largely uneducated workforce, pulling down trade barriers may make the problem worse. In such countries, the objective of policy should be to raise the private return to education by reducing the private cost of schooling, and raising life expectancy. (JEL D13, F12, I20, J13, J24, O15)

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  • Alessandro Cigno, 2003. "Globalisation Can Help Reduce Child Labour," CESifo Economic Studies, CESifo Group, vol. 49(4), pages 515-526.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:cesifo:v:49:y:2003:i:4:p:515-526.
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    1. Michele Di Maio & Giorgio Fabbri, 2013. "Consumer boycott, household heterogeneity, and child labor," Journal of Population Economics, Springer;European Society for Population Economics, vol. 26(4), pages 1609-1630, October.
    2. Muhammad Nawaz & Muhammad Nasir & Amanat Ali & Waheed Chaudhry, 2011. "Trade Liberalization and Child Labor: A Case Study of Pakistan," Transition Studies Review, Springer;Central Eastern European University Network (CEEUN), vol. 18(2), pages 361-376, December.
    3. Lars Calmfors & Giancarlo Corsetti & Seppo Honkapohja & John Kay & Willi Leibfritz & Gilles Saint-Paul & Hans-Werner Sinn & Xavier Vives, 2004. "EEAG European Economic Advisory Group at CESifo: Report on the European Economy 2004," EEAG Report on the European Economy, CESifo, vol. 0, pages 1-148, October.

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    JEL classification:

    • D13 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Household Production and Intrahouse Allocation
    • F12 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Models of Trade with Imperfect Competition and Scale Economies; Fragmentation
    • I20 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - General
    • J13 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
    • J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
    • O15 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration

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