Socio-Economic Factors in Child Labor: Moderating Role of Education
Abstract
The notion of child labor has disquieted the researcher. This paper highlights the impact of poverty, unemployment and social progress on child labor based on data from 30 countries to ascertain that incidence of child labor may be high with high level of poverty and unemployment along with low level of social progress and educational attainment. The results reveal that poverty has a positive while social progress and unemployment has negative relation with child labor. Moreover, education moderates the causal effects of social progress on child labor, while social progress also mediates the relationship between poverty and child labor.
Copyright (c) 2017 Mohammad Ali Haider Chauhan, Noor ul Ain
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Thus, work submitted to Journal of Management and Research implies that it is original, unpublished work of the authors; neither published previously nor accepted/under consideration for publication elsewhere.
