Poverty and Child Labor: Are Children as the Economic Resource of the Household?
- DOI
- 10.2991/imm-16.2016.3How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- globalization, poverty, household welfare, child labor
- Abstract
Income (or expenditure) is the most common poverty indicator which it measures at the household level, however poverty is an individual concept. Poor household have always thought that all household members share fortunes and misfortunes equally, which is particularly problematic in the case of children. This problem is exacerbated by the globalization which could impact on reducing household incomes and worsen the position of children in the household. The purpose of this study is to identify the impact of economic globalization to poverty and to identify relation between poverty and child labor. The methods used in this study is empiric study with data from Statistics Indonesia (BPS) and The National Socioeconomic Survey (SUSENAS). The results of this study indicate that changes in economic globalization, poverty and household welfare are examined to shed lights on the causes and consequences of child labor.
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- © 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - M. Sasongko AU - Febry Wijayanti PY - 2016/10 DA - 2016/10 TI - Poverty and Child Labor: Are Children as the Economic Resource of the Household? BT - Proceedings of the International Conference, Integrated Microfinance Management for Sustainable Community Development (IMM 2016) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 14 EP - 19 SN - 2352-5428 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/imm-16.2016.3 DO - 10.2991/imm-16.2016.3 ID - Sasongko2016/10 ER -