TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu
AU  - Bandyopadhyay, Sudeshna C.
        TI  - Trade and Child Labor: A General Equilibrium Analysis
        PY  - 2005/Mar/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 1514
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp1514
        AB  - This paper augments the existing literature on trade and child labor by exploring the effects of terms of trade changes in the context of a three good general equilibrium model, where one of the goods is a non-traded good. We find that under quasi-linear preferences the effect of the terms of trade on child labor depends critically on the pattern of substitutability (or complementarity) in the excess demand functions between the export good and the non-traded good. We extend the analysis to the case of homothetic preferences and find that the basic result is somewhat modified in a context where the marginal utility of income is affected by the terms of trade. We also extend the analysis to the case where factors move freely between the three goods as in a Heckscher-Ohlin type framework. Finally, we show that a balanced budget policy of taxing the education of skilled families and subsidizing the education of unskilled families must reduce child labor without any impact on aggregate welfare.
        KW  - child labor
KW  - non-traded goods
KW  - substitutability or complementarity
KW  - terms of trade
        ER  -