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Globalization and the illicit market for human trafficking: an empirical analysis of supply and demand

This working paper studies the determinants of trafficking for forced sexual exploitation, at a cross-country econometric analysis.

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Type Working paper
Date issued 2006
Reference 92-2-119525-2 (ISBN)
Authors Gergana Danailova-Trainor, Patrick Belser
Unit responsible Programme for the Promotion of the Declaration
Subjects data analysis, forced labour, trafficking in persons, globalization
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The paper provides empirical support to show there exists a statistical relationship between the number of victims trafficked out a country and the level of female youth unemployment in that country and that countries more opened to globalization and having more prostitution are more likely to be destination places for trafficking victims.
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