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 …

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 presents an economic model of prostitution, which differs from the existing literature in that it makes no …