Ending Abusive Child Labour Case Study
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“Ending Abusive Child Labour”
Policymakers seeking to end child labour must address the poverty that is most often the cause of the problem. Although abusive child labour exists and must be eliminated, typical child labour works alongside a parent and is helping his or her family meet its most basic needs. A clear correlation between declining poverty and fewer working children, and suggest that child labour is most prevalent when parents and children have no real alternative or live in areas that do not offer adequate or affordable schools for children.
An effective policy for ending child labour can thus be crafted only within the context of country’s overall development strategy, and it must consider whether it eliminates …show more content…
There are approximately 250 million working children aged between five and fourteen, of which at least 120 million are involved in full time work that is both hazardous and exploitative. Such labour is spread throughout the developing world. Driven by public outrage in developed countries, the issue of exploitative child labour has received increasing attention. Yet solutions remain elusive, and they are made more complicated by the fact that the extent of child labour reflects a country’s level of economic development. This means that developed country calls for prohibition can seem hollow in the eyes of developing countries, which maintain that the developed countries themselves relied extensively on child labour when they were at a similar stage of economic …show more content…
We have in mind a single household decision maker deriving utility from consumption today and the child’s future well being. This agent maximizes utility by allocating child time between schooling, paid employment and work inside the household, subject to a time and cash constraint. Schooling and paid employment are both difficult to do part time. There are fixed cost associated with searching for and travelling to paid employment, and the formal labour market production technology may require coordination with other workers. Work inside the home is more flexible. Schooling is also inflexible, because it is difficult to make adequate school progress with sporadic attendance and awkward to leave after a few hours. As a result, it is rare to combine paid employment with schooling. Combining unpaid household based work with schooling is more
“Ending Abusive Child Labour”
Policymakers seeking to end child labour must address the poverty that is most often the cause of the problem. Although abusive child labour exists and must be eliminated, typical child labour works alongside a parent and is helping his or her family meet its most basic needs. A clear correlation between declining poverty and fewer working children, and suggest that child labour is most prevalent when parents and children have no real alternative or live in areas that do not offer adequate or affordable schools for children.
An effective policy for ending child labour can thus be crafted only within the context of country’s overall development strategy, and it must consider whether it eliminates …show more content…
There are approximately 250 million working children aged between five and fourteen, of which at least 120 million are involved in full time work that is both hazardous and exploitative. Such labour is spread throughout the developing world. Driven by public outrage in developed countries, the issue of exploitative child labour has received increasing attention. Yet solutions remain elusive, and they are made more complicated by the fact that the extent of child labour reflects a country’s level of economic development. This means that developed country calls for prohibition can seem hollow in the eyes of developing countries, which maintain that the developed countries themselves relied extensively on child labour when they were at a similar stage of economic …show more content…
We have in mind a single household decision maker deriving utility from consumption today and the child’s future well being. This agent maximizes utility by allocating child time between schooling, paid employment and work inside the household, subject to a time and cash constraint. Schooling and paid employment are both difficult to do part time. There are fixed cost associated with searching for and travelling to paid employment, and the formal labour market production technology may require coordination with other workers. Work inside the home is more flexible. Schooling is also inflexible, because it is difficult to make adequate school progress with sporadic attendance and awkward to leave after a few hours. As a result, it is rare to combine paid employment with schooling. Combining unpaid household based work with schooling is more