Child labor and globalization

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Dinopoulos, Elias; Zhao, Laixun
• 署名单位: State University System of Florida; University of Florida; Kobe University
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF LABOR ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0734-306X
• DOI: 10.1086/513297
• 发表日期: 2007
• 页码: 553-579
• 关键词: division-of-labor; INTERNATIONAL-TRADE; wage determination; surplus labor; unemployment; malnutrition; MARKETS; POLICY; MODEL; determinant

摘要

The article embeds child labor in a standard general equilibrium, two-sector model of a small open economy facing perfectly competitive markets, efficiency wages, and free trade. The modern sector uses skilled adult labor and capital, and the agrarian sector uses unskilled (child and adult) labor and skilled adult labor. Trade policies, foreign direct investment, or both that increase the modern-sector output reduce the incidence of child labor. Emigration of skilled (unskilled) workers reduces (increases) the incidence of child labor. Child-wage subsidies increase the incidence of child labor, and a ban on child labor benefits unskilled adult workers but hurts skilled workers.