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CHILD LABOUR IN VIETNAM
Author(s) -
Rosati Furio Camillo,
Tzannatos Zafiris
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
pacific economic review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.34
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1468-0106
pISSN - 1361-374X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0106.2006.00296.x
Subject(s) - economics , altruism (biology) , human capital , explanatory power , labour economics , investment (military) , power (physics) , child labour , economic growth , work (physics) , psychology , social psychology , mechanical engineering , philosophy , physics , engineering , epistemology , quantum mechanics , politics , political science , law
. The paper tests the explanatory power of a theoretical model of household decisions about child labour and school enrolment and analyses the determinants of child labour in Vietnam, a country that is experiencing a rapid transition toward a market economy. The theoretical framework, used as a benchmark, is in the spirit of the ‘new household’ economics and links household decisions about schooling and child labour to intergenerational altruism and to human capital investment. On this basis, we analyse the evolution and determinants of child labour using two household surveys (1993 and 1998) for Vietnam.