تأثير الفقر على عمالة الأطفال في مصر: نموذج بروبيت ذو متغير داخلي كامن ثنائي الأوجه

Abstract EN

Child labour, in general, is considered a severe problem suffered by many countries, especially third-world countries, and Egypt is one of these countries that faces many social and economic challenges such as the widening of the poverty cycle, which contributed to the spread of child labour in the Egyptian society.

the study aimed to determine the demographic and socioeconomic factors that affect child labour given the existence of endogeneity problem caused by the variable of child belonging to a poor family in the child labour equation.

the results of the Probit model with endogenous dummy regressor showed that a child belonging to a poor family was more likely to be child labour, and there was a positive association of child labour with his age.

the child who lived in rural area was more likely to work as a child labour than his counterparts in urban areas.

the non-dropout of school reduces the probability of his belonging to a poor family and to be a child labour.

also, there was a negative association of child belonging to a poor family and child labour with the educational level of the household head.

the household size was positively correlated with the likelihood of a child belonging to a poor family.

the likelihood of children belonging to poor households increased among children whose household heads work in white-collar jobs.

children whose household heads work in blue-collar jobs were more likely to enter the labour market.