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This paper analyzes the determinants behind the spatial distribution of the sex industry in Thailand. We relate the …
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Through its "comfort women" framework, the World War II Japanese military extended its licensing regime for domestic … prostitution to the brothels next to its overseas bases. That regime imposed strenuous health standards, which the military needed … prostitutes (we limit this article to women recruited from Korea and Japan) through variations on the standard indenture contracts …
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demonstrates the sustainability of the comfort women system with contracts for sex, which reinforces the prostitute theory and …), and a mass number of disposable women. Furthermore, the theory is absent from an integrated logic. The paper requests …
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This study assesses the empirical relevance of the Harris-Todaro model at high levels of urbanization a feature that characterizes an increasing number of developing countries, which were largely rural when the model was created 50 years ago. Using data from Brazil, the paper compares observed...
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This paper explores the effects of weather-induced rural-urban migration on urban labor and housing markets in Brazil. In order to identify causal effects, it uses weather shocks to the rural municipalities of origin of migrants. We show that larger migration shocks led to an increase in...
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Purpose -- Studies on women entrepreneurs either read women through a structuralist lens as marginalised populations … choice. The aim of this paper is to evaluate critically these various explanations in relation to the informal sector women … of 457 women entrepreneurs of the informal sector show that although the structuralist representation is largely …
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