Globalization and the illicit market for human trafficking: an empirical analysis of supply and demand
- Document number
- 2009
- Date
- 2006
- Title
- Globalization and the illicit market for human trafficking: an empirical analysis of supply and demand
- Author/publisher
- Gergana Danailova-Trainor, Patrick Belser, Special Action Programme to Combat Forced Labour
- Availability
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- Document type(s)
- Research/Study/Analysis,
- Keywords
- DECLARATION/WP/53/2006, Working Paper, ILO, Undocumented migrants; Undocumented labour;
- Summary
- The present working paper uses the database developed for the global estimate to study the determinants of one specific form of human trafficking, namely trafficking for forced sexual exploitation. It represents a first attempt at a cross-country econometric analysis of the determinants of sex trafficking. The results are supportive of the hypothesis derived from much qualitative work that there exists a statistical relationship between the number of victims trafficked out of a country and the level of female youth unemployment in that country. The results also support the hypothesis that countries which are more opened to the forces of globalization and have more prostitution are more likely to be destination places for victims of trafficking (the paper, however, has not examined the link between the legal status of prostitution and prostitution incidence, and thus has not found any correlation between legalised prostitution and trafficking). Although these arguments are not new, the paper provides some empirical support for them. The paper nevertheless recognizes that the quality of the available data is still relatively poor and hence calls for better statistics and data in order to improve the robustness of future empirical analysis
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