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Do market wages influence child labor and child schooling?

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  • Wahba, Jackline

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Thispaper provides empirical evidence on the joint determinants of child labor, and child schooling, using individual level data from Egypt. The main findings are as follows: 1) A ten percent increase in the illiterate male market wage decreases the probability of child labor by 21.5 percent for boys, and 13.1 percent for girls. 2) Higher local regional income inequality increases the likelihood of child labor. 3) Parents who were child laborers themselves, are more likely to send their children out to work. 4) Local labor market conditions - the share of adults engaged in the public sector, or in non-regular jobs - play an important role in influencing child labor participation. 5) There is a trade-off between child labor, and child schooling. The results suggest that not only is poverty the main cause of child labor, but that child labor perpetuates poverty as well.

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  • Wahba, Jackline, 2000. "Do market wages influence child labor and child schooling?," Social Protection Discussion Papers and Notes 23144, The World Bank.
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    1. Dancer, Diane M. & Rammohan, Anu, 2004. "The Determinants of Schooling in Egypt: The Role of Gender and Rural-Urban Residence," Working Papers 1, University of Sydney, School of Economics.
    2. Sushobhan Mahata & Jonaki Sengupta & Ranjanendra Narayan Nag, 2021. "Child Labour and Trade-Related Price Policies in a Developing Economy: A Trade-Theoretical Analysis," The Indian Journal of Labour Economics, Springer;The Indian Society of Labour Economics (ISLE), vol. 64(3), pages 685-704, September.
    3. Jackline Wahba, 2001. "Child Labor and Poverty Transmission: No Room For Dreams," Working Papers 0108, Economic Research Forum, revised 03 2001.
    4. Jayanta Kumar Dwibedi & Sugata Marjit, 2017. "Relative Affluence and Child Labor—Explaining a Paradox," Review of Development Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 21(4), pages 1178-1190, November.
    5. Sam, Victoria Nyarkoah, 2016. "The Poverty Hypothesis and Intergenerational Transmission of Child Labor: Evidence from Ghana," African Journal of Economic Review, African Journal of Economic Review, vol. 4(2), July.

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