Parental migration, paid child labour, and human capital
Parental migration, paid child labour, and human capital
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父母移民、有偿童工和人力资本
DOI：
10.1108/ijse-06-2015-0156
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发表时间：
2017
影响因子：
1.9
通讯作者：
Akira Shimada
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作者：
Akira Shimada;Akira Shimada;Akira Shimada
目的贫困家庭往往依靠父母迁徙和/或雇佣童工维持生计。本文的目的是在动态的背景下考察父母迁移对有偿童工和人力资本形成的影响，明确考虑父母迁移对孩子的学校和家庭教育的影响。特别地，建立了一个世代重叠的模型，其中代理人具有两个时期的生活。有偿童工的数量被确定为效用最大化问题的解决方案。与直觉相反，父母迁移的可能性不一定会减少有偿童工。此外，父母迁移的可能性不一定会增加人力资本。此外，在减少有偿童工和在父母移民可能性下提高人力资本之间可能存在权衡。研究限制/影响外国在潜在移民中给予外来平均的移民可能性。然而，一般而言，移民依赖于潜在移民的人力资本，因此移民的可能性因年龄而异。实际含义移民通常被认为在缓解贫困方面是有效的。然而，由于它不一定减少有偿童工并提高人力资本，在某些情况下，移徙应该受到管制，作为摆脱贫困的一种手段。原始性/价值本文以相同的动态模型讨论父母移徙和有偿童工。本文认为，人力资本不仅由学校教育构建，也由家庭教育构建，其数量随父母迁徙时间的不同而变化。
PurposeHouseholds suffering from poverty often rely on parental migration and/or paid child labour for survival. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of parental migration on paid child labour and human capital formation in a dynamic context, explicitly taking the effects of parental migration on child’s school and home education into account.Design/methodology/approachThe author utilises a mathematical method. In particular, an overlapping-generations model is built, with agents who have a two-period life. The amount of paid child labour is determined as a solution of the utility maximisation problem.FindingsContrary to intuition, parental migration possibilities do not necessarily reduce paid child labour. In addition, parental migration possibilities do not necessarily raise human capital. Moreover, a trade-off might exist between alleviating paid child labour and raising human capital under parental migration possibilities.Research limitations/implicationsMigration possibilities are given exogenously evenly among potential migrants by the foreign country. However, in general, they depend on potential migrants’ human capital so that migration possibilities differ across agents.Practical implicationsMigration is usually considered effective in alleviating poverty. However, since it does not necessarily reduce paid child labour and raise human capital, migration should be regulated in some cases as a means to escape from poverty.Originality/valueThis paper deals with parental migration and paid child labour in an identical dynamic model. This paper assumes that human capital is built not only by school education but also home education, the amount of which changes with the duration of parental migration.