Human trafficking is a humanitarian problem of global scale, but quantitative research on the issue barely exists. This paper is a first attempt to explore the economic drivers of human trafficking and migrant exploitation using micro data. We argue that migration pressure combined with informal...

This dissertation takes a welfare perspective to analyze how rural households in developing countries manage risks ex-ante and cope with shocks ex-post. The first part looks at risk-coping strategies and analyzes the socio-economic consequences of AIDS-related mortality in rural sub-Saharan...

Social foundations of economy -- The argument -- Social-constructivist perspective on economic organization and action -- The empirical case: foreign direct investment in postsocialist europe -- From socialism to postsocialism -- Socialism -- Challenges of the postsocialist transformation:...