Foreign Direct Investment, Child Labour and Unemployment of Unskilled Labour in a Dual Economy

Using a three-sector specific-factor Harris-Todaro type general equilibrium model the paper demonstrates how an inflow of foreign capital might produce favourable effect on the incidence of child labour in a small open dual economy. The welfare of the working families is likely to improve due to the policy even though the urban unemployment situation of unskilled labour may not get better.

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Year of publication:	2010-02-05
Authors:	Chaudhuri, Sarbajit
Institutions:	Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Subject:	Child labour \| general equilibrium \| Harris-Todaro model \| foreign capital \| return to education \| wage inequality

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	MPRA Paper.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Classification:	J13 - Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth ; F10 - Trade. General ; J10 - Demographic Economics. General ; I28 - Government Policy
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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