what are the different specific causes of child labor?

Question

except for general reason "poverty"

Answer 1

Laws against child labor tend to form when the inclusion of children drops the marginal product of labor for families below an adult's marginal product of labor. In other words, adding children to the mix increases labor supply to the point that wages for the average family are lower with the child than without the child, as long as no children work.

Imagine a world with 1,000,000 adult workers and 1,000,000 child workers. Imagine the wages were $2,000,000 per day or $1 per day per average worker and $2 per day per family.

Now imagine that adult worker skill had risen to the point that it was in fact more valuable than $2 per day, but the added skill was lost to the market by all of the cheap labor and capital was becoming more abundant.

So imagine a new law requiring child education and banning child labor. Two things would occur, first the labor supply curve would strongly shift and wages would move to the marginal product of labor, say $2.25. So now the workers and families would average $2.25 per day, product quality would improve and everyone would be better off.

Answer 2

It includes child labour both in personal homes as well as in official places and other outside places.It may be the following:
* When we have more wealth, we need comfort. We become unable to do our own home works which are mostly done by a child labour .
* When its a nuclear family and both of the spouses are job holders, then they feel the need of this in order to maintain their family.
* If we are employing people for any private or official work, then they may demend more. So, here, a child labourer can be a very good alternative.
* In a poor family, when the income level is so less that the parents can't feed their chidren, then they are destined to send their children to work at anywhere else.
These are some of the important reasons for child labour.

Answer 3

i don't mean to be insulting, or offensive.
but it seems to me that poverty ( taken with its effects such as hunger, poor health care, broken families, and hunger)
is/are the specific causes of child labor.


Unless you are asking the question from the other side - which would be "why do people hire children?"

Answer 4

Parents dunt have money
Children are orphan and are forced to work
Helplessness
Lack of interes in studies
For the sake of money

Answer 5

It used to be the norm. The whole family worked on the farm at anything they could manage.

Answer 6

I would repeat the first answer, that answer explains it most.

Answer 7

need - insufficiency - poverty