Does Legalized Prostitution Increase Human Trafficking?
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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 legalizing 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 ...
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عنوان ژورنال: World Development
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0305-750X
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2012.05.023