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Abstract
This paper investigates determinants of child labour in urban Turkey, on the basis of binary response variables in order to estimate a probability for child labour participation decision, given some sort of characteristics and reviews previous finds in this field with a newer data set. For this purpose, we use a newer data, collected by official statistic institution of Turkey and implement a regression procedure, namely, Probit Regression. According to our finds, there does exist significant relations between child labour participation decision and individuals’ characteristics, as well as financial constraints of household members in Turkey. In particular, child labour participation decision is significantly associated with father’s income. Therefore, we find implies about luxury good property of counter decision of child labour participation in Turkey.
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