Title Page

Abstract

국문초록

Contents

List of acronyms 11

CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION 12

1.1. Background 12

1.2. Statement of the problem 13

1.3. What is Child Labour? 14

1.4. Purpose of the research 15

1.5. The Harkin Bill 18

1.6. Harm caused by implementing the Harkin Bill 18

1.7. Significance of the study 19

CHAPTER 2. THEORETICAL BACKGROUND & LITERATURE REVIEW 21

2.1. Household Production Model 21

2.2. Literature Review 23

CHAPTER 3. RESEARCH DESIGN 25

3.1. Analytical framework 25

3.2. Research question and hypothesis 27

3.3. Hypotheses 28

3.4. Research Methodology 29

3.4.1. Methodological steps 29

3.4.2. Study Design 33

3.4.3. Data Analysis method 34

3.4.4. Calculation 34

3.4.5. Probability equation 35

CHAPTER 4. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION 36

4.1. Descriptive Statistics 36

4.2. Summary Statistics 38

4.3. Results 39

4.3.1. Correlation analysis (complementary) 39

4.3.2. Multinomial Logistic Regression 42

CHAPTER 5. DISCUSSIONS 51

5.1. Household head literacy analysis 52

5.2. Main source of income analysis 53

5.3. Area analysis 54

5.4. Division analysis 54

CHAPTER 6. RECOMMENDATION, LIMITATION AND CONCLUSION 55

6.1. Recommendations 55

6.1.1. Example of Singapore as lesson learnt to eliminate child labour 56

6.2. Limitation of the study 57

6.3. Conclusion 58

CHAPTER 7. References 60

CHAPTER 8. Annex 63

Table 1. Frequency Table for Nominal Variables 36

Table 2. Summary Statistics Table for Interval and Ratio Variables 38

Table 3. correlation result 41

Table 4. Multinomial regression at a glance. 46

Table 5. Multinomial regression category wise in details. 47

Figure 1. Flowchart shows the selection determinants that forces children possibly to engaged in child labour 27

Figure 2. Flowchart shows categorical selection and analysis process of data 33

Figure 3. Scatterplots with the regression line added for Child activities and Main source of income (left), Child activities and Household head literacy (right) 39

Figure 4. Scatterplots with the regression line added for Child activities and Area (left), Child activities and Division (right) 40