IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/ags/bdbjaf/212873.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Children'S Participation In The Rural Wage Labour Market

Author

Listed:
  • Begum, Saleha

Abstract

Normally children's economic value in peasant economy is analysed in terms of their contribution to family farm production. But fcr households with small or no land holding and few assets, opportunities for realizing the economic value of children are restricted. Children from thesee households can make an economic contribution to their families by participating in the wage labour market. Amongst a sample of one hundred poor rural households, fifty-four had children of working age. In thirty-seven of these children worked for earnings off the family farm and contributed thirty-four percent of households income; in the other seventeen, households children did not work. This difference in participation is analysed in relation to economic need of and opportunities for child labour participation in the wage labour market. Finally, the need for a more informed understanding of how landlessness or near landlessness may affect fertility is discussed.

Suggested Citation

  • Begum, Saleha, 1980. "Children'S Participation In The Rural Wage Labour Market," Bangladesh Journal of Agricultural Economics, Bangladesh Agricultural University, vol. 3(1), pages 1-10, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:bdbjaf:212873
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.212873
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/212873/files/Resear_01%20Vol-III_1.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.22004/ag.econ.212873?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ags:bdbjaf:212873. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: AgEcon Search (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/febaubd.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.