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Child Labor, Idiosyncratic Shocks, and Social Policy

Domain:

socioeconomic

Record type:

paper
Creator:
FabPal
Editor:
GroCen
Publisher:
CCSD
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In this paper, we provide a dynamic model with heterogeneous agents to study child labor in an economy with idiosyncratic shocks to employment. Households facing adverse shocks may use child labor as a buffer to smooth consumption. We show that the introduction of an unemployment insurance program and/or a universal basic income system help eliminate child labor endogenously in this context. A calibration to South Africa in the 1990s is provided.

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child laboridiosyncratic shocksunemployment insuranceuniversal basic incomeheterogeneous agentschild labor ban[SHS.ECO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Economics and Finance

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info:eu-repo/semantics/OpenAccess

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