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International human trafficking of women for commercial sexual exploitation (henceforth trafficking) is an economic activity in which organizations try to make profits. Trafficking has been identified as a form of modern-day slavery and is a worldwide problem which has grown rapidly in the last...
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prostitution. It is shown that under well specified conditions, every individual will work as a prostitute, yet every individual …-fulfilling. In this case, all the individuals choose to engage in prostitution, which renders each of them worse off. The paper … prostitution), if implemented strictly, can increase everyone's welfare, but when the policy is implemented loosely, cracking down …
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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 … the prostitution market, increasing human trafficking, while the substitution effect reduces demand for trafficked women …
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Liberal prostitution policy aims at improving labour conditions for prostitutes and protecting victims of forced … prostitution. Its policy orientation predicts that the policy choice of liberalizing prostitution is positively associated with … empirically whether the legalization of prostitution improves protection policy for victims, as it is presumed. The results of my …
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We study human trafficking in a marriage market model of prostitution. When trafficking is based on coercion …, trafficking victims constitute a non-zero share of supply in any unregulated prostitution market. We ask if regulation can … approaches - criminalization of prostitutes (the traditional model), licensed prostitution (the Dutch model), and criminalization …
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in the era before railways. Here we use detailed data for Paris on women arrested for prostitution in the 1760s, or …
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We discuss changes in the demand for paid sex accompanying the criminalization of prostitution in the United Kingdom … down on prostitution with the Prostitution (Public Places) Scotland Act 2007 and the Policing and Crime Act of 2009 in … prostitution. …
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This paper studies the incidence, determinants and pricing of unprotected oral sex in the London sex services market. The analysis is based upon matched sex worker-client panel data, which were collected from "field reports" on PunterNet.com website over the 1999-2009 time period. We find a...
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Internationally, there is no consensus concerning the legal and moral judgment of prostitution. Nevertheless, there is …" prostitution regime impacts sexual slavery. The theoretical analysis reveals that this effect is ambiguous and crucially depends on …
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We estimate the earnings premium for beauty in an occupation where returns to physical attractiveness are likely to be important: commercial sex work. In the commercial sex market, perhaps more so than any other sector in the labor market, the beauty premium should be at the extreme due to the...
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