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| Author: | Scoville, J. G. |
| Title: | Segmentation in the Market for Child Labor: The Economics of Child Labor Revisited |
| Journal: | American Journal of Economics and Sociology
2002 : JUL, VOL. 61:3, p. 713-724 |
| Index terms: | MARKETING MARKETS MARKET SEGMENTATION ECONOMICS CHILD WORKERS |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | Recent events have focused attention on international la 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-the authors 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. |
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