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The novel coronavirus (Covid-19): Theoretical and practical perspectives on children, women and sex trafficking

Asongu, Simplice; Usman, Usman M.; Vo, Xuan Vinh - 2020

contribute towards stopping the trafficking of girls and women during a pandemic. …, human trafficking in girls and women constitutes a global oppression in virtually all nations either as the source, transit … identified gap by providing theoretical and practical perspectives on children, women, and sex trafficking. It is a qualitative …

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The Covid-19 pandemic: Theoretical and practical perspectives on children, women and sex trafficking

Asongu, Simplice; Usman, Usman M. - 2020

We provide theoretical and practical perspectives on children, women, and sex trafficking during the Covid-19 pandemic …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012389236

The spread of anti-trafficking policies: Evidence from a new index

Cho, Seo-Young; Dreher, Axel; Neumayer, Eric - 2010

We analyze the spread of policies dealing with international trafficking in human beings. Arguing that countries are unlikely to make independent choices, we identify pressure, externalities and learning or emulation as plausible diffusion mechanisms for spatial dependence in anti-trafficking...

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Ethnic fragmentation, conflict, displaced persons and human trafficking: An empirical analysis

Akee, Randall K. Q.; Basu, Arnab K.; Chau, Nancy H.; … - 2010

Ethnic conflicts and their links to international human trafficking have recently received a surge in international attention. It appears that ethnic conflicts exacerbate the internal displacement of individuals from networks of family and community, and their access to economic and social...

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The spread of anti-trafficking policies: Evidence from a new index

Cho, Seo-Young; Dreher, Axel; Neumayer, Eric - 2011

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Modeling for determinants of human trafficking

Cho, Seo-Young - 2012

This study aims to identify robust push and pull factors of human trafficking. I test for the robustness of 78 push and 67 pull factors suggested in the literature. By employing an extreme bound analysis, running more than two million regressions with all possible combinations of variables for...

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Irregular Migration from Cambodia: Characteristics, Challenges, and Regulatory Approach

Hing, Vutha; Lun, Pide; Phann, Dalis - 2011

The study examines the characteristics, root causes, and challenges of irregular migration from Cambodia and then discusses the regulatory approaches and policy options to manage it. It employed mixed approaches, including a survey of 507 households in six high-migration villages, focus group...

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The economic drivers of human trafficking: micro-evidence from five Eastern European countries

Omar Mahmoud, Toman; Trebesch, Christoph - 2009

Human trafficking is a humanitarian problem of global scale, but quantitative research on the issue barely exists. This paper is a first attempt to explore the economic drivers of human trafficking and migrant exploitation using micro data. We argue that migration pressure combined with informal...

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Transnational trafficking, law enforcement and victim protection: A middleman trafficker's perspective

Akee, Randall K. Q.; Bedi, Arjun S.; Basu, Arnab K.; … - 2011

We explore three hitherto poorly understood characteristics of the human trafficking market - the cross-border ease of mobility of traffickers, the relative bargaining strength of traffickers and final buyers, and the elasticity of buyers' demand. In a model of two-way bargaining, the exact...

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Does Legalized Prostitution Increase Human Trafficking?

Cho, Seo-Young; Dreher, Axel; Neumayer, Eric - 2011

the prostitution market, increasing human trafficking, while the substitution effect reduces demand for trafficked women …This paper investigates the impact of legalized prostitution on human trafficking inflows. According to economic theory …, there are two opposing effects of unknown magnitude. The scale effect of legalizing prostitution leads to an expansion of …

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