Mehr als 2,45 Millionen Menschen sind laut den Vereinten Nationen Opfer von Menschenhandel, die Dunkelziffer ist hoch. Viele Staaten haben deshalb ihre Bemühungen verstärkt, gegen Menschenhandel vorzugehen und den Opfern zu helfen. Das DIW Berlin hat nun den 3P-Index, der die staatlichen...

The recently released 3P Anti-trafficking Policy Index shows that policy performance against human trafficking demonstrates mixed results worldwide during the period of 2000-2011. Most countries have adopted anti-trafficking law in their legal systems and committed to criminal justice...

This paper provides empirical results for internal migration and commuting flows using panel data for 89 economic regions in Norway for the years 2001-2014. The emphasis is on the potential effects of different incentive variables. We consider both in- and out-migration as well as in- and...

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...

This study examines the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on fertility in Norway at the individual level. Studies using data at the macro level have found a positive short-term effect of the pandemic on fertility level in Norway, but women's fertility response to the pandemic may differ depending...

Im Zentrum der Diskussion über eine Integration von Geflüchteten steht vielfach die erfolgreiche Eingliederung in den Arbeitsmarkt. Eine Untersuchung auf Basis einer repräsentativen Befragung von Geflüchteten zeigt, dass der Einstieg in den Arbeitsmarkt von Geflüchteten, die seit 2010 nach...

A phenomenon observed in many labor markets is that the supply of labor appears to depend on business cycles. In other words, workers who are searching for work become "discouraged" under unfavorable business cycle conditions because they believe that their chances of finding an acceptable job...

Geflüchtete in Deutschland müssen etliche Hürden überwinden, um eine Anstellung zu finden. Ein Grund dafür ist die Verteilung der Geflüchteten nach dem Königsteiner Schlüssel, der die Arbeitsmarktsituation in den Kreisen und Städten nicht berücksichtigt. Dieser Wochenbericht betrachtet...

Discouraged workers are those who have given up search due to (perceived) low chances of obtaining work. In this paper we first develop a model for the probability of being in the labor force as a function of the probability of getting an acceptable job offer. This model is based on standard...

Cybercrime is typically profiled as a skill-intensive crime committed by educated, young criminals. This observation raises the controversial question of whether advanced knowledge and skills are a pull factor of cybercrime. In this paper, the linkage between e-skills and cybercrime is...