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Child Labor, Corruption, and Development

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  • Miyashita Toshiki

    (Faculty of Business Administration, 12949 Miyazaki Sangyo-Keiei University , 100 Maruo, Furujo-cho, Miyazaki, Miyazaki, 880-0931, Japan)

  • Okada Kohei

    (Faculty of Economics, Osaka Sangyo University, 1-1-3 Nakagaito, Daito, Osaka 574-0013, Japan)

  • Takakura Kei

    (Faculty of Law, Economics and Humanities, Kagoshima University, 1-21-30 Korimoto, Kagoshima, Kagoshima, 890-0065, Japan)

Abstract

Employing an overlapping generations model with endogenous education choice and corruption, we investigate how child labor and corruption influence human capital accumulation and development. We show that multiple steady states exist in the economy. One steady state has a high level of human capital, while the other has a low level of human capital. In the steady state with a low level of human capital, child labor and corruption exist, fertility and child mortality rates are high, and the welfare level is low. Conversely, in the steady state with a high level of human capital, child labor and corruption are diminished, fertility and child mortality rates are low, and welfare is high. In addition, we show that it is difficult to steer an economy away from a poverty trap with child labor and corruption because bureaucrats of the current generation are opposed to policy changes, such as the reinforcement of monitoring and penal regulations. However, we highlight the possibility for the government to develop the economy in the poverty trap by implementing an education policy, which is Pareto improving.

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  • Miyashita Toshiki & Okada Kohei & Takakura Kei, 2024. "Child Labor, Corruption, and Development," The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics, De Gruyter, vol. 24(2), pages 813-852.
    • Handle: RePEc:bpj:bejmac:v:24:y:2024:i:2:p:813-852:n:1009
    DOI: 10.1515/bejm-2024-0045
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    Keywords

    child labor; corruption; human capital accumulation; development;
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    JEL classification:

    • D73 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Bureaucracy; Administrative Processes in Public Organizations; Corruption
    • E24 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
    • I25 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Education and Economic Development
    • J13 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth

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