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Social Globalization and Child Labor: A Cross‐country Analysis
Author(s) -
Fors Heather Congdon
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
the developing economies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.305
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1746-1049
pISSN - 0012-1533
DOI - 10.1111/deve.12041
Subject(s) - globalization , economics , empirical research , empirical evidence , developing country , economic globalization , demographic economics , development economics , labour economics , economic growth , market economy , philosophy , epistemology
While much of the research on child labor focuses on household level factors, macroeconomic factors, such as globalization, have gained increasing attention. This paper contributes to the literature on the role of globalization in child labor by examining a specific aspect of globalization, namely social globalization. The results of the empirical analysis indicate that social globalization does have a significant negative impact on the average incidence of child labor in the cross‐country sample of developing countries. This contrasts with the existing literature on economic globalization and child labor, where, in many cases, no significant effect is found.