Household Self-Employment Eliminates Child Labour

Saha, B.

doi:10.1007/978-981-13-9981-7

Household Self-Employment Eliminates Child Labour

Saha, B.

Authors

Dr Bibhas Saha b.c.saha@durham.ac.uk
Associate Professor

Contributors

Simanti Bandyopadhya
Editor

Mousumi Dutta
Editor

Abstract

This paper shows that if a minimal proportion of poor households is empowered with self-employment opportunities, child labour will not arise in equilibrium. The economy will have a unique `good' equilib- rium generating a suciently high wage to support full child schooling.

Citation

Saha, B. (2019). Household Self-Employment Eliminates Child Labour. In S. Bandyopadhya, & M. Dutta (Eds.), Opportunities and challenges in development : essays for Sarmila Banerjee (357-366). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9981-7

Acceptance Date	Jul 15, 2019
Online Publication Date	Sep 28, 2019
Publication Date	Sep 15, 2019
Deposit Date	Jul 15, 2019
Publicly Available Date	Sep 28, 2021
Publisher	Springer Verlag
Pages	357-366
Book Title	Opportunities and challenges in development : essays for Sarmila Banerjee.
ISBN	9789811399800
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9981-7
Public URL	https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1631726

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This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of a book chapter published in Opportunities and challenges in development : essays for Sarmila Banerjee. The final authenticated version is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9981-7