Luận Văn Child labor in Vietnam The relative importance of poverty, returns to education, labor mobility, and

Child labor in Vietnam: The relative importance of poverty, returns to education, labor mobility, and credit constraints

This empirical work on child labor in Vietnam analyzes some of the determinants of child labor by addressing four interrelated questions. First, we try to find a threshold poverty line, if any, that affects the child labor decisions of families. Results from different model specifications support the idea that child leisure (or schooling) is a luxury good. Second, we explore the relationship between returns to education and child labor. Different specifications of the model in this section indicate that returns may not be important in the determination of children's work hours. A third model is unable to find support for the hypothesis that an increase in returns to education in the urban areas can reduce child labor in rural areas due to labor mobility. Finally, a fourth model is unable to find any relationship that would support the hypothesis that poor people are more credit-constrained, a possibility that returns to education may not matter for them in their child labor decisions. Therefore this work suggests that poverty alleviation should be the most important policy for reducing child labor, whereas policies for improving the returns to education may not help to abate child labor in Vietnam.
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[TH]Format:[/TH]
[TD]Dissertation[/TD]
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[TH]Author(s):[/TH]
[TD]Dutta, Gitanjali[/TD]
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[TH]Published:[/TH]
[TD]2002[/TD]
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[TH]Language:[/TH]
[TD]English[/TD]
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