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 legalized prostitution leads to an expansion of the … prostitution market, increasing human trafficking, while the substitution effect reduces demand for trafficked women as legal …

This paper investigates empirically whether prostitution reduces sex crimes. Theoretical predictions suggest two … contradicting effects: substituting or complementing. By using survey data of sex offenders in Korea, I find that prostitution … sex crimes. These results indicate that prostitution intensifies one's propensities for more violent sexual behaviors …

prostitution. It is shown that under well specified conditions, every individual will work as a prostitute, yet every individual …-fulfilling. In this case, all the individuals choose to engage in prostitution, which renders each of them worse off. The paper … prostitution), if implemented strictly, can increase everyone's welfare, but when the policy is implemented loosely, cracking down …

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 trafficking, while the substitution effect reduces demand for trafficked women …

Liberal prostitution policy aims at improving labour conditions for prostitutes and protecting victims of forced … prostitution. Its policy orientation predicts that the policy choice of liberalizing prostitution is positively associated with … empirically whether the legalization of prostitution improves protection policy for victims, as it is presumed. The results of my …

We study human trafficking in a marriage market model of prostitution. When trafficking is based on coercion …, trafficking victims constitute a non-zero share of supply in any unregulated prostitution market. We ask if regulation can … approaches - criminalization of prostitutes (the traditional model), licensed prostitution (the Dutch model), and criminalization …