The Human Capital Vicious Cycle Created by the Child Labor Issue in Turkey

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 500-516
Author(s):  
Hakan Acaroğlu ◽  
Erol Kutlu
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Child Labor ◽  
Vicious Cycle ◽  
Labor Issue

scholarly journals CHILD LABOR AND THE EDUCATION OF A SOCIETY

2009 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 220-249 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clive Bell ◽  
Hans Gersbach
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Child Labor ◽  
Capital Accumulation ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
School Attendance ◽  
Compulsory Education ◽  
Child Rearing ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Initial State ◽  
Continuous Growth

This paper analyzes policies by means of which a whole society in an initial state of illiteracy and low productivity can raise itself into a condition of continuous growth. Using an overlapping generations model in which human capital is formed through child rearing and formal education, we show that an escape from a poverty trap, in which children work full time and no human capital accumulation takes place, is possible through compulsory education or programs of taxes and transfers. If school attendance is unenforceable, temporary inequality is unavoidable if the society is to escape in finite time, but long-run inequalities are avoidable provided sufficiently heavy, but temporary, taxes can be imposed on the better off. Programs that aim simply at high attendance rates in the present can be strongly nonoptimal.

scholarly journals The Spillovers of Employment Guarantee Programs on Child Labor and Education

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 164-178 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tianshu Li ◽  
Sheetal Sekhri
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Child Labor ◽  
Capital Accumulation ◽  
School Enrollment ◽  
Primary School Children ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
Employment Guarantee ◽  
Employment Guarantee Scheme ◽  
Employment Data ◽  
Roll Out

Abstract Many developing countries use employment guarantee programs to combat poverty. This study examines the consequences of such employment guarantee programs for the human capital accumulation of children. It exploits the phased roll-out of India’s flagship Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGA) to study the effects on enrollment in schools and child labor. Introduction of MGNREGA results in lower relative school enrollment in treated districts. It also finds that the drop in enrollment is driven by primary school children. Children in higher grades are just as likely to attend school under MGNREGA, but their school performance deteriorates. Using nationally representative employment data, the study finds evidence indicating an increase in child labor highlighting the unintentional perverse effects of the employment guarantee schemes for human capital.

Suriyeli sığınmacı çocuk işçiler ve sorunları: Kilis örneği

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muazzez Harunoğulları
Keyword(s):  
Child Labor ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Large Population ◽  
Refugee Children ◽  
Syrian Refugees ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Border City ◽  
Observation Methods ◽  
Labor Issue

Suriye’de yaşanan savaş sonucu ülkemize göç edenlerin sayısı milyonları bulmuştur. Bir sınır kenti olan Kilis, büyük bir Suriyeli sığınmacı nüfusa ev sahipliği yapmaktadır. Çalışmanın amacı Kilis kentinde bulunan Suriyeli sığınmacıların çocuk işçileri, onların sosyo-mekansal ve sosyo-ekonomik durumlarını irdelemektir. Bu çalışmada eğitim, oyun ve sağlıklı yaşam hakkı tehlikeye giren çocuk işçilerin yaşadıkları sorunlar değerlendirilmiştir. Katmanlı örneklem yöntemi ile seçilen mahalleler ve iş yerlerinde görüşülen 62 çocuk işçi araştırma kapsamına alınmıştır. Suriyeli çocuk işçilerle ilgili verilerin elde edilmesinde anket, görüşme ve gözlem yöntemleri kullanılmıştır. Nicel veriler tablolar ve şekiller halinde nitel veriler de betimsel analiz metoduyla değerlendirilmiştir. Araştırmada sığınmacı çocuk işçiliği üzerinde yoksulluk, ebeveynlerin işsizliği, ailedeki birey sayısının fazla olması ve aileye maddi destek olma isteğinin belirleyici olduğu saptanmıştır. Çalışmak zorunda kalan Suriyeli göçmen çocuklar pek çok fiziksel, sosyal ve psikolojik sorunla karşı karşıya kalmaktadır. Bu sorunların çözümü için kamu kurumları tarafından gerekli tedbirlerin alınması, ebeveynler ve çocuklar için uygun istihdam koşullarının sağlanması gerekmektedir.ENGLISH ABSTRACTChild labor among Syrian refugees and problems: case of KilisAbstractThe number of refugees fleeing to Turkey due to the civil war in Syria has exceeded 3 millions. As a border city, Kilis hosts a large population of Syrian refugees. The purpose of this study is to examine child labor issue among Syrian refugees and their socio-spatial and socio-economic conditions in Kilis. This study evaluates the problems of child workers whose right to live a healthy life and to play was imperiled. Certain neighborhoods selected according to stratified sampling method and 62 child workers were interviewed and observed in this study. Survey, interview and observation methods were used to collect data about Syrian child labor. Quantitative data were presented in tables and figures; qualitative data was evaluated with the descriptive analysis method. It was found out that poverty, unemployed parents, the number of siblings and eagerness to support the family are among the factors affecting Syrian child labor. The Syrian refugee children who were forced to work face many physical, social and psychological problems. To solve these issues the public authorities should take necessary precautions and need to ensure suitable work places both for parents and children.Keywords: Syrian immigrants; child labor; Turkey; asylum seekers

scholarly journals MYOPIC MISERY: MATERNAL DEPRESSION, CHILD INVESTMENTS, AND THE NEUROBIOLOGICAL POVERTY TRAP

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 522-534 ◽  
Author(s):  
Holger Strulik
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Maternal Depression ◽  
Overlapping Generations ◽  
Poverty Trap ◽  
Environment Interaction ◽  
Vicious Cycle ◽  
Gene Environment Interaction ◽  
Gene Environment ◽  
The Future

In this paper, I explore in an overlapping generations framework, a mechanism motivating a neurobiological poverty trap. Poverty causes stress and depression in individuals susceptible to depression. Poor and depressed individuals discount the future at a higher rate and invest less in the human capital of their children than mentally healthy or rich individuals. This gene–environment interaction generates a vicious cycle in which poor individuals inherit not only susceptibility to depression, but also stress and poverty. I show that a successful one-time intervention has the power to permanently eliminate the neurobiological poverty trap.

scholarly journals News Coverage of Child Labor Issue in Pakistani Press: A Comparative Analysis of Daily Dawn and Daily Jang

2016 ◽  
Vol I (I) ◽  
pp. 40-51
Author(s):  
Adnan Ali ◽  
Arshad Rehman ◽  
Khayam Hassan
Keyword(s):  
Child Labor ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Labor Rights ◽  
The Public ◽  
Government Organizations ◽  
Quantitative Content ◽  
Single Column ◽  
Labor Issue ◽  
The Government

The aim of this research was to evaluate child labor issue in the news coverage of in mainstream Pakistani press. The study also examined the news about awareness and education of the public towards the child labor issue. Quantitative content analysis was done for collection of data. A comparative study was conducted, where the news of the front and back page of the daily Dawn (English) and daily Jang (Urdu) were analyzed through purposive sampling technique from January 1st, 2016 to June 30th, 2016. The study revealed that the issue had not given more coverage, the newspapers had published more news single column, the government organizations had given more information instead of non-government organizations, and both newspapers had given more news about the violation of the child labor rights. While to educate and aware the public less coverage had been given.

scholarly journals Human Capital Investment in the Presence of Child Labor

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalie Bau ◽  
Martin Rotemberg ◽  
Manisha Shah ◽  
Bryce Steinberg
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Child Labor ◽  
Capital Investment ◽  
Human Capital Investment
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