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Prostitution 602 Weibliche Arbeitskräfte 131 Women workers 131 Sexuality 94 Sexualität 94 Gender 87 Geschlecht 84 Women 80 Frauen 79 Human trafficking 77 Menschenhandel 76 sex work 59 Theorie 55 Theory 55 Welt 53 World 53 Kriminalität 48 Regulation 48 Crime 47 Regulierung 46 AIDS 43 Großbritannien 33 United Kingdom 33 Sex work 29 prostitution 29 India 28 Infectious disease 27 Infektionskrankheit 27 Indien 26 Lohnstruktur 26 Wage structure 26 Gesundheitsrisiko 25 Health risk 25 USA 24 United States 24 Men 22 Männer 22 Sexual harassment 21 Sexuelle Belästigung 21 Child labour 20
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Shah, Manisha 27 Della Giusta, Marina 22 Di Tommaso, Maria Laura 17 Robinson, Jonathan 12 Cunningham, Scott 11 Scoular, Jane 11 Yeh, Ethan 11 Bettio, Francesca 10 Jakobsson, Niklas 10 Kotsadam, Andreas 10 Seager, Jennifer 10 Strøm, Steinar 10 Jana, Smarajit 9 Cameron, Lisa 8 Cho, Seo-Young 7 Ciacci, Riccardo 7 Gupta, Indrani 6 Lee, Samuel 6 Leong, Kaiwen 6 Persson, Petra 6 Rao, Vijayendra 6 Brodeur, Abel 5 Edlund, Lena 5 Kelly, Morgan 5 Lang, Kevin 5 Lekfuangfu, Warn N. 5 Li, Huailu 5 Ramseyer, J. Mark 5 Sanders, Teela 5 Zylberberg, Yanos 5 Ó Gráda, Cormac 5 Araujo, Pedro de 4 Arunachalam, Raj 4 Carroni, Elias 4 Collins, Alan 4 Dragone, Davide 4 Dreher, Axel 4 Drydakis, Nick 4 Gertler, Paul J. 4 Hardy, Kate 4
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National Bureau of Economic Research 5 Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies 3 European Union Agency for Criminal Justice Cooperation 2 World Bank 2 Arbeitskreis Sexualitäten in der Geschichte / Jahrestagung <3., 2022, Wien> 1 Duke University / School of Law 1 European Asylum Support Office 1 European Meeting of the Main Partners in the Fight against Child Sex Tourism <1, 1998, Brüssel> 1 Europäische Kommission / Direktion Tourismus 1 Europäisches Parlament / Generaldirektion Interne Politikbereiche der Union / Direktion Bürgerrechte und Konstitutionelle Angelegenheiten 1 Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfswetenschappen, Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel (HUBrussel) 1 Finnish Immigration Service / Country Information Service 1 Great Britain / Committee on Homosexual Offences and Prostitution 1 I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd Publishers 1 Institute of Social Studies (ISS) 1 Internationales Arbeitsamt 1 Save the Children International Union 1 Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden 1 USA / Bureau of International Labor Affairs 1 Vereinte Nationen / Department of International Economic and Social Affairs 1 Vereinte Nationen / Office on Drugs and Crime 1
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The Oxford handbook of the economics of prostitution 25 Feminist economics 13 European journal of law and economics 12 Discussion paper series 8 Feminist Economics 7 Asian and Pacific migration journal : APMJ 5 IZA Discussion Paper 5 NBER working paper series 5 Work, employment and society : a journal of the British Sociological Association 5 IDS working paper 4 Journal of population economics : international research on the economics of population, household, and human resources 4 Memorandum / Department of Economics, University of Oslo 4 NBER Working Paper 4 Sociological Research Online 4 Tourism management : research, policies, practice 4 Work, employment & society : a journal of the British Sociological Association 4 Working paper 4 Working paper / National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. 4 Applied economics 3 Discussion paper / Centre for Economic Policy Research 3 European business ethics cases in context : the morality of corporate decision making 3 Health economics 3 Human trafficking and the tourism industry 3 I4R discussion paper series 3 IZA Discussion Papers 3 International review of law and economics 3 Journal of public economics 3 Policy research working paper : WPS 3 Review of Economics of the Household 3 Scottish journal of political economy : the journal of the Scottish Economic Society 3 Social Science & Medicine 3 The American economic review 3 The Harvard John M. Olin discussion paper series 3 Tourism analysis : an interdisciplinary tourism & hospitality journal 3 Working papers in economics 3 American economic journal : a journal of the American Economic Association 2 Asia Pacific journal of marketing and logistics 2 Asia's transformations 2 BREAD working paper 2 Beiträge zum transnationalen Wirtschaftsrecht 2
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An economic theory of sexual exchanges and human capital
Carroni, Elias; Della Giusta, Marina; Dragone, Davide - 2025
We develop a rational choice model of sexual exchange that unifies marriage and paid sex, explaining two key facts: the gendered segregation of sex markets and the decline in sexual activity and fertility. Individuals choose whether to engage in paid or unpaid sex based on income, human capital,...
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An economic theory of sexual exchanges and human capital
Carroni, Elias; Della Giusta, Marina; Dragone, Davide - 2025
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Constructing coercion : labor regimes and sex workers in the US-Mexico borderlands
Bernardino, Erik - 2026
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An economic theory of sexual exchanges and human capital
Carroni, Elias; Della Giusta, Marina; Dragone, Davide - 2025
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An Economic Theory of Sexual Exchanges and Human Capital
Carroni, Elias; Della Giusta, Marina; Dragone, Davide - 2025
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Doing the "bad job" to make a living and expose men : economic critique voiced in folktales by marginalised women
Sotiropoulou, Irene - 2026
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Elites of the Whorearchy - OnlyFans Creators’ Power, Identity and Sex Work Stigma Negotiation
Schuchmann, Swana - 2025
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From ‘white slavery’ to ‘female sexual slavery’: the UN and global radical feminism against sex work
Campbell, Rosa; Stevenson, Ana - 2026
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Prostitution or marriage? : evidence from the Nordic model
Gao, Huasheng; Petrova, Vanya; Yin, Mengfan - 2026
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Prostitution or Marriage? Evidence from the Nordic Model
Gao, Huasheng; Petrova, Vanya; Yin, Mengfan - 2023
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Welfare as women's independence : how can the women's liberation movement inform our radical visions of women's welfare?
Cann, Lucy - 2025
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Transformations of labour through the lens of sex work : navigating digitalisation, precarity and resistance
2026
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Understanding child sex trafficking by use of victim-level data
Björkman-Nyqvist, Martina; Kuecken, Maria; La Ferrara, … - 2025
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Human service nonprofits providing services to sex workers : efforts to manage competing logics and ideologies from an inhabited institutions framework
Anasti, Theresa - 2023
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Does the risk premium differ between women engaging in commercial and transactional sex? : evidence from urban Cameroon
Njuguna, Rebecca G.; Cust, Henry; Lépine, Aurélia - 2025
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Re-analysis of Adema et al. (2025a)
Ciacci, Riccardo - 2025
Adema et al. (2025a) critically reassesses the findings of Ciacci (2024), arguing that the reported effects result from statistical errors and flawed empirical implementation. This response systematically addresses those claims by applying their proposed methodology to the corrected sample...
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Still no reform effect, just overfitted control functions and inflated precision
Adema, Joop; Folke, Olle; Rickne, Johanna - 2025
In his comment on our replication of Ciacci (2024), Ciacci (2025b) again finds large and statistically significant treatment effects on rape from Sweden's ban on sex purchases. These estimates derive from overfitted control functions and incorrect clustering in the regression discontinuity in...
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Trafficking in human beings for sexual exploitation and related crimes
2025
This leaflet aims to raise awareness of the challenges identified by Eurojust in judicial cooperation regarding legal qualifications and the interpretation of facts constituting the offence of trafficking in human beings (THB) for sexual exploitation and related crimes.
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Trafficking in human beings for sexual exploitation and related crimes
2025
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Re-analysis of Ciacci, R. (2024) : banning the purchase of sex increases cases of rape: evidence from Sweden
Adema, Joop; Folke, Olle; Rickne, Johanna - 2025
The article Banning the Purchase of Sex Increases Cases of Rape: Evidence from Sweden" claims that Sweden's 1999 criminalization of buying sex increased rape by 44-62% (Ciacci, 2024). This finding is surprising given the flat time trend in reported rapes around the reform year. We show that...
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Stigma hierarchies : the internal dynamics of stigmatization in the sex work occupation
Toubiana, Madeline; Ruebottom, Trish - 2022
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Incentivizing adherence to pre-exposure prophylaxis for HIV prevention : a randomized pilot trial among male sex workers in Mexico
Galarraga, Omar; Wilson-Barthes, Marta; Chivardi, Carlos; … - 2025
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Fallen women : recessions and the supply of sex work
Goehring, Grant - 2025
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Gender, money, and sexuality : an exploration into the relational work of Pakistani Khwajasiras
Ashraf, Muhammad Junaid; Pianezzi, Daniela - 2024
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Silence breaking : sex crime reporting in the MeToo era
Chen, Feng; Long, Wei - 2024
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Chapter 9. Mitigating Human and Sex Trafficking
Tarlow, Peter E.; Spencer, Andrew - 2025
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Use of pornography by young adults in Ireland
Nolan, Anne; Smyth, Emer - 2024
This report draws on the Growing Up in Ireland (GUI) study to look at pornography use among over 4,500 young adults at 20 years of age. Pornography use was captured as part of a module of questions on different types of internet use. The rich information provided by the GUI study allows us to...
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Chapter 4. From Slavery to Prostitution: Entrance to Human and Sex Trafficking
Tarlow, Peter E.; Spencer, Andrew - 2025
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Chapter 3. A Brief History of Slavery, Human, and Sex Trafficking
Tarlow, Peter E.; Spencer, Andrew - 2025
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Trading HIV for sheep : risky sexual behavior and the response of female sex workers to Tabaski in Senegal
Cust, Henry; Lépine, Aurélia; Treibich, Carole; … - 2024
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Neoliberal authoritarianism and the partial decriminalization of sex work in Kazakhstan
Thibault, Hélène - 2025
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Overcoming communicative separation for stigma reconstruction : how pole dancers fight content moderation on Instagram
Leybold, Milena; Nadegger, Monica - 2024
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The sex worker rights movement and trade unionism in Europe : case studies from Sweden, Germany and the United Kingdom
Cruz, Katie; Herrmann, Tess - 2024
In this paper, we review the European sex worker rights movement and instances of trade unionism that have grown out of it before focussing on three case studies of contemporary sex worker organising: Red Umbrella in Sweden (RUS), the sex worker section (SW-S) of the Freie Arbeiter*innen Union...
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Human trafficking and the tourism industry
Tarlow, Peter E.; Spencer, Andrew - 2025 - First edition
Although human trafficking has long been a tragic part of history, in recent years it has become an ever-growing problem globally, and in many cases facilitated a modern form of slavery. In the twenty-first century, human trafficking is not only intertwined with international drug cartels but...
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Determining economic factors for sex trafficking in the United States using count time series regression
Jang, Yuhyeong; Sundararajan, Raanju R.; Barreto-Souza, … - 2024
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Sozioökonomie der Sexualitäten im 20. Jahrhundert
2025
Wie Sexualität im Lauf der Geschichte rechtlich reglementiert, politisch aufgeladen und medial repräsentiert wurde, ist hinglänglich erforscht. Die vielfältigen Verflechtungen zwischen Sexualität, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft wurden in der Forschung bislang aber vernachlässigt. Gerade der...
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Additional evidence on the effects of banning the purchase of sex on cases of rape in Sweden
Ciacci, Riccardo - 2025
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Women on the move : trafficking, sex work and reproductive health among West African migrant women
Plambech, Sine; Cerio, Maria Chiara - 2021
This report explores the interconnections between trafficking, sex work and reproductive health along the West African-European corridor. Fifty-one women were interviewed at different points of their journeys from Nigeria and Ivory Coast through Niger, Tunisia, Libya, across the Mediterranean to...
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Identity management as a coping strategy for stigmatization : the case of Indian sex workers in a libidinal market
Mitra, Nilanjana; Hill, Ronald Paul; Chaudhuri, Himadri Roy - 2022
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Sex workers' everyday security in the Netherlands and the impact of COVID-19
Cubides Kovacsics, María Inés; Santos, Wáleri; … - 2021
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From the margins of law to the margins of the city; a legal-geographical analysis of sex work regulationism in Greece
Michalakea, Athena - 2024
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Sex workers' self-reported physical and mental health in Greece: a repeated cross-sectional study in 2009, 2013 and 2019
Drydakis, Nick - 2021
In Greece, given the precarious nature of the sex work industry, sex workers health and wellbeing is of concern. However, relevant research remains limited. This study examined whether sex workers' self-reported physical and mental health deteriorated across time points during the economic...
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Sex workers' self-reported physical and mental health in Greece. A repeated cross-sectional study in 2009, 2013 and 2019
Drydakis, Nick - 2021
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Sex Workers' Self-Reported Physical and Mental Health in Greece: A Repeated Cross-Sectional Study in 2009, 2013 and 2019
Drydakis, Nick - 2021
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Sex workers' self-reported physical and mental health in Greece : a repeated cross-sectional study in 2009, 2013 and 2019
Drydakis, Nick - 2021
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Crimes against morality : unintended consequences of criminalizing sex work
Cameron, Lisa; Seager, Jennifer; Shah, Manisha - 2021
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Crimes against morality: unintended consequences of criminalizing sex work
Cameron, Lisa; Seager, Jennifer; Shah, Manisha - 2020
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Crimes against morality : unintended consequences of criminalizing sex work
Cameron, Lisa; Seager, Jennifer; Shah, Manisha - 2020
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Crimes against morality : unintended consequences of criminalizing sex work
Cameron, Lisa; Seager, Jennifer; Shah, Manisha - 2020
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Crimes Against Morality : Unintended Consequences of Criminalizing Sex Work
Cameron, Lisa; Seager, Jennifer; Shah, Manisha - 2022
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Crimes Against Morality : Unintended Consequences of Criminalizing Sex Work
Cameron, Lisa; Seager, Jennifer; Shah, Manisha - 2021
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Crimes against Morality : Unintended Consequences of Criminalizing Sex Work
Cameron, Lisa; Seager, Jennifer; Shah, Manisha - 2021
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Crimes Against Morality : Unintended Consequences of Criminalizing Sex Work
Cameron, Lisa - 2020
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Individualism and the legal status of prostitution
Davis, Lewis S.; Mavisakalyan, Astghik - 2024
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From a Respected Tawaif to the Infamous Prostitute - Understanding Access to Justice and Navigating through Dispute Redressal Mechanisms Available to Independent Women Street Sex Workers
Gupta, Harshita - 2023
Indian women street sex workers' legal rights and access to justice are examined in this study. It examines how sex work restrictions affect independent sex workers' right to justice. The study suggests using informal justice institutions, including mediation, to resolve these vulnerable women's...
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Health certification in sex markets : a field experiment in Dakar, Senegal
Manian, Shanthi - 2024
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Risk attitude, risky behaviour and price determination in the sex market : a case study of Yangon, Myanmar
Yamada, Hiroyuki; Kanayama, Yuki; Yoshikawa, Kanako; … - 2023
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How Successful Public Health Interventions Fail : Regulating Prostitution in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Goehring, Grant; Hanlon, W. Walker - 2024
Public health interventions often involve a trade-off between improving health and protecting individual rights. We study this trade-off in a high-stakes setting: prostitution regulations aimed at reducing the spread of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in Victorian Britain. These...
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How successful public health interventions fail : regulating prostitution in nineteenth-century Britain
Goehring, Grant; Hanlon, W. Walker - 2024
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How does public policy impact trafficking victimization? : an exact matching study in the EU
Nordquist, Sienna - 2023
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From human services to "justice enterprises" : reframing the market-mission tension in U.S. organizations serving survivors of commercial sexual exploitation
Corple, Danielle - 2024
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Does criminalizing the purchase of sex reduce sex-buying? : evidence from a European survey on prostitution
Jonsson, Sofia - 2023
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The problem of legal regulation of intimate services : the use of artificial intelligence
Voskresenskaya, Elena; Dalinin, Aleksey; Volnov, Aleksey - 2024
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Influence of COVID-19 on Female Sex Workers in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania : A Mixed-Methods Analysis
Balampama, Marianna - 2023
This study investigates how the landscape of sex work in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, evolved in the context of the COVID-19 epidemic. Using a mixed-methods approach, the analysis triangulates data from quantitative and qualitative sources to quantify shifts in income, demand, and client frequency...
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Enabling and managing commodified authentic experiences: the high-class escort sector in The Netherlands
van Hoogen, Welmoed; Tackney, Charles T. - 2024
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