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Is child labour a substitute for adult labour? The relationship between child labour and adult illness in Nepal
Author(s) -
Nepal Apsara,
Nepal Mani
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
international labour review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.433
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1564-913X
pISSN - 0020-7780
DOI - 10.1111/j.1564-913x.2012.00137.x
Subject(s) - child labour , work (physics) , economics , labour economics , scholarship , test (biology) , consumption (sociology) , demographic economics , per capita , work hours , working hours , economic growth , sociology , demography , mechanical engineering , engineering , paleontology , social science , population , biology
. Using official household survey data, the authors test two axioms regarding child labour in Nepal. Both the “luxury” and the “substitution” axioms appear to hold in the case of Nepal's child labour: a household's higher per capita income reduces child work hours; and the absence from work of an adult household member owing to illness increases child work hours. Girls work more hours than boys. Other variables reducing child work hours are: scholarship provision, private schooling, the presence of siblings at home, and adults' years of schooling. However, higher consumption is not effective in reducing child work hours.