Household Self-Employment Eliminates Child Labour

Saha, B.

Abstract

This paper shows that if a minimal proportion of poor households is empowered with self-employment opportunities, child labour will not arise in equilibrium. The economy will have a unique `good' equilib- rium generating a suciently high wage to support full child schooling.

Citation

Saha, B. (2019). Household Self-Employment Eliminates Child Labour. In S. Bandyopadhya, & M. Dutta (Eds.), Opportunities and challenges in development : essays for Sarmila Banerjee (357-366). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9981-7

• Online Publication Date: Sep 28, 2019
• Publication Date: Sep 15, 2019
• Deposit Date: Jul 15, 2019
• Publicly Available Date: Sep 28, 2021
• Publisher: Springer Verlag
• Pages: 357-366
• Book Title: Opportunities and challenges in development : essays for Sarmila Banerjee.
• ISBN: 9789811399800
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9981-7
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1631726
• Contract Date: Jul 15, 2019