The Effects of Fair Trade on Child Labor

在项目的第二年，我完成了下面描述的工作。首先，我建立了一个小型开放经济体(发展中国家)的分析模型，其中包含了童工和公平贸易(FT)体系，使用了之前(在第一年)创建的关于发展中国家童工的微观基础，以及之前(在第一年)记录的FT体系的特征。第二，在这个模型中，我捕获了FT体系的关键组件，并利用这个设置，处理了模型的均衡，并分析了FT的增加如何影响发展中国家的童工。第三，我从上面的构造中得到了以下结果。英国《金融时报》全球价格上涨增加了发展中国家不强迫子女工作的家庭数量，但这可能会增加发展中国家儿童的总工作时间。接下来，我证明了英国《金融时报》的工资将产生相反的结果。此外，英国《金融时报》(社会)的溢价可能会导致儿童的总工作时间减少。第四，我继续对公平贸易机制进行正式分析。这一分析也对目前的研究做出了贡献。我在会议上展示了已取得的成果。

In the project’s second year, I performed the work described below.First, I built an analytical model of a small open economy (developing country) that incorporated both child labor and the fair trade (FT) system, using a previously (during the 1st year) created micro foundation on child labor in developing countries and previously (during the 1st year) documented features of the FT system.Second, in this model, I captured key components of the FT system, and using this setting, I tackled the equilibrium of the model and analyzed how an increase in the FT affects child labor in developing countries.Third, I derived the following results from the above construction. An increase in the FT world price increases the number of households in a developing country that do not force their children to work, however, it may intensify the total working time of children in developing countries. Next, I showed that the FT wage would have the opposite result. In addition, the FT (social) premium may contribute to a decline in children’s total working time.Fourth, I continued a formal analysis of the fair trade mechanisms. This analysis also contributed to the current study. I presented obtained results at conferences.