Segmentation in the Market for Child Labor
The Economics of Child Labor Revisited
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2794062 |
|---|---|
| Authors | James G Scoville (University of Minnesota, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 61 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 713-723 |
| Publication date | 2002-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Economics and Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-9246 • E-ISSN: 1536-7150 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1536-7150.00186 |
| OpenAlex | W2095656534 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
Recent events have focused attention on international labor standards, with some special attention being paid to child labor. The diverse forms of child labor are often merged into one: a stereotype of "children sewing Nikes," although the situation varies widely from that model. Certain forms of child labor are not substitutable by adult labor; others are more appropriately modeled as a form of apprenticeship. A simple family utility function helps elucidate the reasons. The ultimate purpose of the paper is to challenge the policy ambiguity-we cannot tell whether restrictions on child labor are good or bad-that was a result in Basu and Van's earlier (1998) modeling of child labor
Ambiguity · Apprenticeship · Economics · Function (biology) · Labor market segmentation · Labor relations · Labour economics · Personnel economics · The labor problem · Wage · International Development and Aid · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,07 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2011 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |