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The economics of trafficking for sexual exploitation
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 decades. Despite this, the economics literature on trafficking is small, which is somewhat surprising given that the economics of immigration as well as the economics of crime are both large areas of research. We review the existing economics literature on trafficking with a particular focus on the gaps in this literature. We also describe the datasets that have been and can be used in studying trafficking and we point to future areas of research. We believe that economists have a lot to contribute to the knowledge of the determinants of trafficking and, as more and improved data becomes readily available, the possibilities for credible quantitative research in this area will grow.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: Memorandum ; No. 7/2015
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
International Migration
Economic Impacts of Globalization: General
Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
Criminal Law
Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
- Subject
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Law and economics
Prostitution
Sexual exploitation
Sex slavery
Trafficking
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Jakobsson, Niklas
Kotsadam, Andreas
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Veröffentlichung
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University of Oslo, Department of Economics
- (where)
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Oslo
- (when)
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2015
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Jakobsson, Niklas
- Kotsadam, Andreas
- University of Oslo, Department of Economics
Time of origin
- 2015
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