Arbeitspapier
Does Legalized Prostitution Increase Human Trafficking?
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 as legal prostitutes are favored over trafficked ones. Our empirical analysis for a cross-section of up to 150 countries shows that the scale effect dominates the substitution effect. On average, the legalization of prostitution increases human trafficking inflows.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: Discussion Papers ; No. 96
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
International Migration
Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law
- Thema
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human trafficking
prostitution
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Cho, Seo-Young
Dreher, Axel
Neumayer, Eric
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Veröffentlichung
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Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Courant Research Centre - Poverty, Equity and Growth (CRC-PEG)
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Göttingen
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2011
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Cho, Seo-Young
- Dreher, Axel
- Neumayer, Eric
- Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Courant Research Centre - Poverty, Equity and Growth (CRC-PEG)
Entstanden
- 2011