Edlund, Lena; Korn, Evelyn - In: Journal of Political Economy 110 (2002) 1, pp. 181-214
Prostitution is low-skill, labor intensive, female, and well paid. This paper proposes a marriage market explanation to this puzzle. If a prostitute compromises her marriage market prospects, she will have to be compensated for forgone marriage market opportunities. We discuss the link between...