The Effect of Wages on the Intensity of Child Labor

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Damankeshan, Atefeh | 2017

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Type of Document: M.Sc. Thesis
Language: Farsi
Document No: 53604 (44)
University: Sharif University of Technology
Department: Management and Economics
Advisor(s): Keshavarz Hadad, Gholamreza; Fatemi Ardestani, Farshad
Abstract:
In this study, the intensity of child labor has been investigated by modeling household behavior in a framework of collective decision-making on resource allocation, and for this purpose, a household utility maximization problem has been used in which child’s and parents’ wages, non-working incomes, education level for bargaining power as well as several variables at the social level such as unemployment rate, divorce rate and Gini coefficient have been used to reflect labor market conditions. In this study, the structure of equations for girls and boys in urban and rural areas has been estimated by using raw household budget data for 2015 in Iran and multivariate Tobit technique. Findings show that poverty is not the only reason for child labor, but also parents' wages, non-working incomes, education level and bargaining power against each other and labor market conditions affect the intensity of their work
Keywords:
Child Labor ; Bargaining Power ; Collective Decision Making ; Wage ; Probit Analysis ; Action Modeling ; Multivariate Tobit Technique

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