Incidence and Determinants of Child Labour in Nigeria: Implications for Poverty Alleviation

Okpukpara, Benjamin; Odurukwe, Ngozi

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“…Moreover, marital instability and Research on Humanities and Social Sciences www.iiste.org ISSN 2224-5766 (Paper) ISSN 2225-0484 (Online) Vol.7, No.20, 2017 family disorganization were also identified as contributory factors. Be that as it may, the first econometric study of National Child Labour Survey data also noted that these factors have an influencing behavior on child participation in different child activity options (Okpukpara and Odurukwe, 2003). Family dynamics and poor public education systems are also cited as major contributors to child labour (Brown, 2006).…”

Section: Literature Review 21 Factors Responsible For Child Labour mentioning

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“…Over 4 million children in Nigeria are engaged in economic or labour activities, working long hours in poor and unhealthy conditions and they receive a token fee less than one-third of legislated minimum wage (Oloko, 2004). Over the years, the use of children for labour outside the home has continued to change in form and character in Nigeria (Okpukpara and Odurukwe, 2003). On daily basis, desperate impoverished Nigerian parents are forced to adopt various clandestine measures to keep their families afloat in the absence of any social safety net.…”

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Child Labour and Its Determinants in Informal Sector of Onitsha, Anambra State, Nigeria

Nwamaka

Uzonwanne

2017

SSRN Journal

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Child labour is a problem that affects children and the society all over the world. Children looses their youth and chance of studying, dangers their health and their future thereby providing harm to the society. This study examined child labour and its determinants in Nigeria with specific focus on informal sector of Onitsha Metropolis, Anambra state. It is a descriptive survey research. Interview schedule was used as instrument for data collection. Non-probability sampling was employed in which the sample were drawn using quota and purposive sampling technique. Data collected were analyzed using descriptive statistics(frequencies, percentages and charts).The aim of this study is to find out what determines the labour supply decisions in onitsha metropolis and also to find out the major causative factors of child labour in Onitsha metropolis. The study finds that parents determines the labour supply decisions in the study area. The findings of this study also showed that factors such as illiteracy, Parents ignorance, low level of awareness, high cost of living and low income also contribute to child labour in the study area. The study recommended amongst others that Anti-child labour watch group should be formed to prosecute and penalize parents who engage their children into labour in Onitsha and also government should provide financial assistance to parents to increase their income.

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Section: Literature Review 21 Factors Responsible For Child Labour mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Child Labour and Its Determinants in Informal Sector of Onitsha, Anambra State, Nigeria

Nwamaka

Uzonwanne

2017

SSRN Journal

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“…Many families claim that without child labor, the household enterprise would stop operating, which would send them into poverty. In a study devoted to child labor in Nigeria, Okpukpara and Odurukwe (2006) report that "the contribution of children's earnings to household income ranges from 3.5% to 38%" (p. 25) according to the regions, and note that "many families have no alternative other than to send their children to work because they see their earnings as an input into family survival" (p. 27). 5 Economic historians have shown that this phenomenon, observed nowadays in poor countries, was also prominent in England at the time of the industrialization.…”

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Endogenous Fertility With a Sibship Size Effect

Brezis

Ferreira

2015

Macroecon. Dynam.

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in AbstractSince the seminal work of Becker, the dynamics of endogenous fertility has been based on the trade-off faced by parents between the quantity and the quality of their children. However, in developing countries, when child labor is an indispensable source of household income, parents actually incur a negative cost for having an extra child, so that the trade-off disappears. The purpose of this paper is to restore the Beckerian quantity-quality trade-off when intergenerational transfers are upstream, so as to keep fertility endogenous. We do that by adding a negative "sibship size effect" on human capital formation to the standard Becker model. With a simple specification, we obtain multiplicity of steady states or, more fundamentally, the possibility of a jump from a state with high fertility and low income to a state with low fertility and high income, triggered by a continuous increase in the productivity of human capital formation.

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“…Moreover, the level of education of the household head is important. The more this level, the fewer children are placed on the labor market [1,11]. Unfortunately, statistics show that most children live in households where the heads are without level of education (48.04%).…”

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“…In the literature, several studies have identified the determinants of child labor [9][10][11][12]. Among these causes, income poverty is considered the most critical.…”

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Does the Unavailability of Educational Resources in Schools Determine Child Labor in Sub-Saharan Africa? A Micro-econometric Analysis from Cȏte d’ivoire

Abou¹

2016

Int J Econ Manag Sci

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Incidence and Determinants of Child Labour in Nigeria: Implications for Poverty Alleviation

Cited by 11 publications

References 14 publications

Child Labour and Its Determinants in Informal Sector of Onitsha, Anambra State, Nigeria

Child Labour and Its Determinants in Informal Sector of Onitsha, Anambra State, Nigeria

Endogenous Fertility With a Sibship Size Effect

Does the Unavailability of Educational Resources in Schools Determine Child Labor in Sub-Saharan Africa? A Micro-econometric Analysis from Cȏte d’ivoire

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