Role of women in schooling and child labour decision: the case of urban boys in India

Das, Saswati; Mukherjee, Diganta

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“…The large bulk of it consists of small scale studies, focusing on the situation of specific groups in specific regions/countries (e.g. Patrinos and Psacharopoulos,1997;Das and Mukherjee, 2007;Emerson and Souza, 2008).…”

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Child Labor in Africa and Asia: Household and Context Determinants of Hours Worked in Paid Labor by Young Children in 16 Low-Income Countries

2014

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We study the number of hours children in Africa and Asia are involved in paid child labor on the basis of a newly developed database with information on 168,000 children living in 16 countries.The proportion of involved children varies between 1 and 8 percent, with generally lower figures in Asia. Children work on average 13 hours in Africa and 30-38 hours in Asia. Multilevel analysis shows the variation in child labor to be almost completely related to household level factors, with wealth and parental education being the major determinants. In Asia also demographic and cultural factors have significant effects. Gender differences are very large in Asia but relatively small in Africa. In both continents mostly factors at the household level and much less demand for child labor at the context level drive children into paid labor. AcknowledgementsWe are grateful to UNICEF for providing the Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS).

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Child Labor in Africa and Asia: Household and Context Determinants of Hours Worked in Paid Labor by Young Children in 16 Low-Income Countries

2014

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“…It is distinctly clear from Table 1 that the dropout phenomenon sharply increases with level of education. This is surprising because the incentive for staying in school for a substantial number of years is quite strong in Indian labour market (Das and Mukherjee,[5]). The education premium is present in the child labour market too, in a weaker sense.…”

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“…The empirical literature on child labour has been shifted from mere quantification to an econometric analysis of its determinants. Mention may be made of studies done by Psacharopoulos [1] on Venezuela, Jensen and Nielsen [2] on Zambia, Ray [3] on Pakistan and Peru, Ravallion and Wodon [4] on Bangladesh, Das and Mukherjee [5], and Mukherjee and Das [6] on India. These studies demonstrate several factors contributing to the decision to send a child to work.…”

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“…Even though poverty is likely to be a major driving force towards child labour decision, there are some other potential factors influencing this decision. The study made by Das and Mukherjee [5] addressed two broad issues in urban Indian context, namely, return to investment in education in job market; linkage between parental human capital and children outcomes in the household in terms of extent of schooling, tendency to drop out, and decision to work as child labour. The study shows that there exists significant wage premium in Indian labour market.…”

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“…In earlier works of Das and Mukherjee [5], and Mukherjee and Das [6], the issue of child labour was addressed only for urban Indian children. In these works, addressing the issue for rural Indian children was untouched.…”

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Incidence of Child Labour and Child Schooling in India: Pattern and Determinants

Das

2012

ISRN Economics

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The issue of child labour is a frontline concern in India, as early entry into labour market at formative stage of life does mean absconding from proper schooling leading to loss of future scope of better livelihood, since the existing literature shows that there is wage premium for education in Indian labour market. In this perspective, this study aims to carry out a supply-side analysis towards examining the incidence and pattern of child labour and child schooling to test out regional and gender disparities, if any, in terms of these incidences. Socio-economic determinants across gender and region also have been identified for an everlasting way out of the crisis. The data-base utilized for the analysis has been extracted from the National Sample Survey on “Employment and Unemployment Situation in India” for the 61st large sample round (2004-2005). The pattern of child employment in a range of industries confirms the malfunctioning of lawful steps to save child labourers from mischief of occupational vulnerability. It also reveals significant discrepancy in incidence of child labour both across region and gender, but for schooling choice no considerable regional gap is substantiated.

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Laboring Boys in Urban India

Das,

Mukherjee

2023

Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research

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Role of women in schooling and child labour decision: the case of urban boys in India

Abstract: child labour, education, empowerment, NSSO India,

Cited by 19 publications

References 5 publications

Child Labor in Africa and Asia: Household and Context Determinants of Hours Worked in Paid Labor by Young Children in 16 Low-Income Countries

Child Labor in Africa and Asia: Household and Context Determinants of Hours Worked in Paid Labor by Young Children in 16 Low-Income Countries

Incidence of Child Labour and Child Schooling in India: Pattern and Determinants

Laboring Boys in Urban India

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