POLS 317 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: Street Prostitution, Logistic Regression, United Nations Office On Drugs And Crime
2 Mar 2018
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This article investigates the impact of legalized prostitution on human trafficking inflows little in terms of systematic and rigorous research. Akee, bedi, basu, and chau (2010) they do find a negative effect of legalized two quantitative studies have tried to answer this empirical question prostitution on human trafficking in two of their three sets of instrumental variable estimations. Jakobsson and kots (in press), on the other hand, find a positive effect of legalized prostitution on human trafficking in a cross-sectional monadic dataset of 31 european countries. Reduces demand because legal prostitutes are favored over trafficked ones. In countries where prostitution is legalized, there is a significant expansion of the prostitution market that results in larger inflows of human trafficking. Positive effects on the working conditions of those legally employed in the industry. Boosts the market for a fast-growing global criminal industry. Argue that legalizing prostitution has two contradictory effects.
