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Child Labor in Africa and Asia: Household and Context Determinants of Hours Worked in Paid Labor by Young Children in 16 Low-Income Countries

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  • Ellen Webbink

    (Department of Economics, Institute for Management Research, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.)

  • Jeroen Smits

    (Department of Economics, Institute for Management Research, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.)

  • Eelke de Jong

    (Department of Economics, Institute for Management Research, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.)

Abstract

We study the number of hours children in Africa and Asia are involved in paid child labor on the basis of a newly developed database with information on 169 000 children living in 16 countries. The proportion of involved children varies between 1 and 8 per cent, with generally lower figures in Asia. Children engaged in paid child labor work on average 13 hours in Africa and 30–38 hours in Asia. Our analyses show the variation in the hours children work for pay to be mainly due to household-level factors (in Asia 95 per cent and in Africa 77 per cent), with poverty still a major driving factor. In Asia parental education and demographic and cultural factors also play an important role; in Africa these factors are of lesser importance.

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  • Ellen Webbink & Jeroen Smits & Eelke de Jong, 2015. "Child Labor in Africa and Asia: Household and Context Determinants of Hours Worked in Paid Labor by Young Children in 16 Low-Income Countries," The European Journal of Development Research, Palgrave Macmillan;European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI), vol. 27(1), pages 84-98, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:eurjdr:v:27:y:2015:i:1:p:84-98
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    1. Mussa, Essa Chanie & Mirzabaev, Alisher & Admassie, Assefa & Nshakira-Rukundo, Emmanuel & von Braun, Joachim, 2019. "Does childhood work impede long-term human capital accumulation? Empirical evidence from rural Ethiopia," International Journal of Educational Development, Elsevier, vol. 66(C), pages 234-246.
    2. Ango, Tola Gemechu & Börjeson, Lowe & Wisborg, Poul & Senbeta, Feyera & Alem, Habtamu, 2022. "Coffee, child labour, and education: Examining a triple social–ecological trade-off in an Afromontane forest landscape," International Journal of Educational Development, Elsevier, vol. 95(C).
    3. Lutfullah Lutf & Shahadat I Haq Yasini, 2018. "Factors Contributing to Child Labor in Afghanistan: A Case Study in Jalalabad City," Economic Alternatives, University of National and World Economy, Sofia, Bulgaria, issue 3, pages 348-372, September.
    4. Deniz Güvercin, 2020. "Women in Politics and Child Labor: an Instrumental Variable Approach," The European Journal of Development Research, Palgrave Macmillan;European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI), vol. 32(4), pages 873-888, September.
    5. Jihye Kim & Wendy Olsen & Arkadiusz Wiśniowski, 2020. "A Bayesian Estimation of Child Labour in India," Child Indicators Research, Springer;The International Society of Child Indicators (ISCI), vol. 13(6), pages 1975-2001, December.

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