Pricing personal services: An empirical study of earnings in the UK prostitution industry

Scottish Journal of Political Economy

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 675-690

  Moffatt, Peter G ^a   Peters, Simon A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPLOYMENT; PROSTITUTION; SERVICE SECTOR; WAGE;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE; WORLD;

EID: 8644234978     PISSN: 00369292     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0036-9292.2004.00327.x     Document Type: Article

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