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Modern Day Slavery: What Drives Human Trafficking in Europe?
At a time of increased attention on the international agenda for human trafficking, this paper examines the determinants of human trafficking inflows to 13 European countries based on official records. By employing a fixed effects zero-inflated, negative binomial gravity-type model, we address data characteristics appropriately. The econometric analysis suggests that human trafficking occurs in well established routes for migrants and refugees. Victims are more likely to be transported to, and exploited in, host countries with suboptimal institutional quality levels. Countries whose nationals do not require a visa for short term visits are especially prone to being potential source countries. Legal status and regulation of commercial sex services does not affect the pattern of trafficking flows.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: Discussion Papers ; No. 97
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
International Migration
Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
Criminal Law
Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law
Formal and Informal Sectors; Shadow Economy; Institutional Arrangements
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Human Trafficking
Gravity Model
Illegal Migration
International Organized Crime
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Hernandez, Diego
Rudolph, Alexandra
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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
- (when)
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2011
- Handle
- Last update
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2025-03-10T11:45:05+0100
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Hernandez, Diego
- Rudolph, Alexandra
- Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Courant Research Centre - Poverty, Equity and Growth (CRC-PEG)
Time of origin
- 2011