Focuses on the methodologies used by the two organizations that have produced the available global estimates of human trafficking, the U.S. government and the ILO.

Using the ILO's database constructed for the purpose of its global estimate on trafficking and forced labour, examines the determinants of one specific form of human trafficking, namely trafficking for forced sexual exploitation.

Estimates the global magnitude of forced labour profits in order to throw light on the scale of this economic exploitation.

Refers to the Minimum Wage Act of 1948. Estimates that minimum wage has no adverse affects on the demand for labour, the Gini effect for wage inequality would decrease, and the gender wage gap could be reduced.