Who's watching? The market for prostitution services

Arbeitspapier

This paper presents an economic model of prostitution, which differs from the existing literature in that it makes no restrictive assumptions regarding the gender, pay, and nature of forgone earning opportunities of prostitutes and clients, and applies the same behavioural hypotheses to both. Our model gives a central role to stigma and reputation effects for both clients and prostitutes. We discuss demand, supply, and equilibrium results, indicating the possible effects of different policies on the industry and its different markets.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Memorandum ; No. 2005,27

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination ; Time Allocation and Labor Supply ; Labor Demand ; Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
• Subject: Prostitution ; Gender ; Labour supply and demand ; Reputation ; Prostitution ; Reputation ; Arbeitsangebot ; Arbeitsnachfrage ; Theorie

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Della Giusta, Marina ; Di Tommaso, Maria Laura ; Strøm, Steinar
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): University of Oslo, Department of Economics
• (where): Oslo
• (when): 2005

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/63101
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:41 AM CET