Does Globalisation Increase Child Labour?

22 Pages Posted: 12 May 2002 Last revised: 16 Apr 2023

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Alessandro Cigno

Department of Economics and Management, University of Florence; CESifo (Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute); IZA Institute of Labor Economics; Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD)

Furio C. Rosati

University of Rome Tor Vergata - Faculty of Economics

Lorenzo Guarcello

International Labour Office

Abstract

There is no empirical evidence that trade exposure per se increases child labour. As tradetheory and household economics lead us to expect, the cross-country evidence seems toindicate that trade reduces or, at worst, has no significant effect on child labour. Consistentlywith the theory, a comparatively well educated labour force, and active social policies, appearto be conducive to a reduction in child labour. For countries with a largely uneducatedworkforce, the problem is not so much globalisation, as being allowed to take part in it.

Keywords: education, globalisation, child labour, skill premium, trade, health

JEL Classification: D13, F12, I20, J13, J24, O15

Suggested Citation

Cigno, Alessandro and Rosati, Furio C. and Guarcello, Lorenzo, Does Globalisation Increase Child Labour?. IZA Discussion Paper No. 470, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=310344 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.310344

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