, and to offset their weaknesses by purchasing adequate goods on the market. Absent trade, people must allocate their time …

market. After characterizing the general demand models, it reviews consumer baseline based on which further study the demand … case for possible application to the electricity market and discusses the implications of the results. In the literature … and demand response in the power market and their relationships. It enhances demand response in the electricity market …

We discuss changes in the demand for paid sex accompanying the criminalization of prostitution in the United Kingdom … down on prostitution with the Prostitution (Public Places) Scotland Act 2007 and the Policing and Crime Act of 2009 in … prostitution. …

This paper studies the incidence, determinants and pricing of unprotected oral sex in the London sex services market …

important: commercial sex work. In the commercial sex market, perhaps more so than any other sector in the labor market, the … surprisingly we find estimates that lie close to or comfortably within those for non-sex workers around the world. In fact, the … commercial sex market stems both from productivity and discrimination. In addition, including controls for personal …

This paper studies the effects of introducing legal street prostitution zones on both registered and perceived crime …. We exploit a unique setting in the Netherlands where legal street prostitution zones were opened in nine cities under … street prostitution zone decreases registered sexual abuse and rape by about 30% to 40% in the first two years. For cities …

Highly-skilled migrants are becoming a more important part of the world economy and of policy debates in a diverse set … of countries. The proliferation of skills around the world, increases in world trade, the growth of R&D, and the general … increase in the labor market demand for diverse sets of skills, have all contributed to the emergence of high-skilled migration …

We argue that one major cause of the U.S. postwar baby boom was the increased demand for female labor during World War … war face increased labor-market competition, which impels them to exit the labor market and start having children earlier …