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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 legalized 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, countries where prostitution is legal experience larger reported human trafficking inflows.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: Economics of Security Working Paper ; No. 71
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
- Subject
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human trafficking
prostitution
legalization
scale effect
substitution effect
global
- Event
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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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Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW)
- (where)
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Berlin
- (when)
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2012
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Cho, Seo-Young
- Dreher, Axel
- Neumayer, Eric
- Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW)
Time of origin
- 2012
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