Child Labour in Indonesian Small Industries

Krisztina Kis-Katos (1) , Guenther G Schulze (1)

1 International Economic Policy

We analyse the geographic incidence of child labour in small manufacturing firms in Indonesia at the village level. We show that a number of counter-intuitive results in a conditional probit model -- e.g. child labour is unaffected by credit access and school proximity -- are the result of an interplay between supply and demand side determinants. Credit access and school proximity reduce child labour supply, but simultaneously constitute positive location factors for firms thereby increasing the demand for child labourers. To effectively reduce child labour, growth oriented policies should be complemented by policies specifically geared towards increasing school attendance.

Mots clés: Social Sciences & Humanities

Domaines: Sciences de l'Homme et Société

Krisztina Kis-Katos, Guenther G Schulze. Child Labour in Indonesian Small Industries. The Journal of Development Studies, 2011, 47 (12), pp.1887-1908. ⟨10.1080/00220388.2011.561327⟩. ⟨hal-00759557⟩