Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/21487 
Year of Publication: 
2002
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 470
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
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.
Subjects: 
child labour
globalisation
education
health
skill premium
trade
JEL: 
O15
J24
F12
J13
D13
I20
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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