Does Legalized Prostitution Increase Human Trafficking?

World Development

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 67-82

  Cho, Seo Young ^a   Dreher, Axel ^b,c,d,e   Neumayer, Eric ^f  

^a DIW BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^d CESifo ^*  (Germany)

^e KOF SWISS ECONOMIC INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^f LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Crime; Global; Human trafficking; Prostitution; Scale effect; Substitution effect

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC THEORY; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; PROSTITUTION; SCALE EFFECT; TRAFFICKING; WOMENS STATUS;

EID: 84870290100     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2012.05.023     Document Type: Article

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