Working versus schooling: the impact of social expenditure

Grigoriou, Christopher; Rota-Graziosi, Grégoire

doi:10.3917/rel.741.0033

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“…Work undertaken by the child at the time he/she is supposed to be in school leads to loss in schooling time. The study considers the decision regarding allocation of child's time as an inter-temporal compromise between education and work [3,13,14].…”

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Analysis of child labour dimensions and causes in rural farm households of Ogun State, Nigeria

Adeoye¹,

Agbonlahor²,

Ashaolu³

et al. 2017

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The prevalence of child labour use in the agricultural sector has been widely reported however, the intensity of its use is most times masked and marred by the informal and culturally ingrained nature of peasant agriculture. The study aims at understanding the dimensions and causes of child labour among rural farm households in Nigeria. A multistage sampling technique was used to select 128 rural households for the survey; a total of 352 children (5-17years) were interviewed to elicit first hand data for the study. Structured questionnaire was used to collect data on child farm work hours, household size, income, farm size, distance of home to school and other relevant socioeconomic characteristics. Analytical techniques used were measures of central tendency and dispersion, and censored Tobit regression model. Results show that the average age of children is 10 years and many of these children (67.3%) are reported to be living with their biological parents. While less than a third (26%) of the children work in paid and non-family farms, the average weekly work hours per child was found to be 31.31 which increases with the age of the child. With reference to loss in school time due to farm work, it was found that rural children in farm households sacrificed an average of 12.9 hours per week (42.9%) of school time to work on the farm; this varies from season to season. Age and education level of the household head, farm and household size, lack of child-level schools in the community, distance of home to school, sex of child, absence of tarmac roads to community and proximity of households to major roads were identified as factors that influence the prevalence and intensity of child farm labour use. The study concluded that rural infrastructure development and households' economic empowerment initiatives are central to child labour reduction strategies.

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Analysis of child labour dimensions and causes in rural farm households of Ogun State, Nigeria

Adeoye¹,

Agbonlahor²,

Ashaolu³

et al. 2017

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Analyzing the Effects of Demographic Transition on Child Labor in Developing Economies

Ibraheem

Hussain

Ahmad

et al. 2022

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Purpose: In efforts to realize the dividend of demographic transition, elimination of child labor has become an utmost challenge for the relevant international bodies. Knowing the importance of this issue, children are now the center of the vision of sustainable development as SDG 8.7 and 16.2 are directly related to children and their lives. In this context, the purpose of the current study is to analyze the linkages between demographic variables (such as working-age population, labor force participation rate, labor force growth rate, life expectancy, and dependency ratio and population growth) and child labor along with some other macroeconomic determinants of child labor. Design/Methodology/Approach: A panel of 45 developing countries covering the period 2000 – 2019 is used for empirical analysis. Dynamic panel GMM technique is utilized for empirical results. Findings: The results show that increase in the working-age population, GDP per capita, age dependency old and young, and health expenditures increase the child labor but increase in life expectancy and educational expenditures reduce the child labor in developing countries. Population growth rate reduces child labor in overall developing countries and high-income developing economies but increases child labor in low income developing countries. The increase in labor force growth rate increases child labor in a panel of developing economies and low-income developing economies but reduces child labor in high-income developing economies. Implications/Originality/Value: Public expenditures in health and education along with increasing the female labor force participation rate is recommended to reduce the child labor in developing countries.

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Working versus schooling: the impact of social expenditure

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Analysis of child labour dimensions and causes in rural farm households of Ogun State, Nigeria

Analysis of child labour dimensions and causes in rural farm households of Ogun State, Nigeria

Analyzing the Effects of Demographic Transition on Child Labor in Developing Economies

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