Transnational Trafficking, Law Enforcement, and Victim Protection: A Middleman Trafficker’s Perspective

We explore two hitherto poorly understood characteristics of the human-trafficking market—the cross-border ease of mobility of traffickers and the elasticity of buyers’ demand. In a model of two-way bargaining, the exact configuration of these characteristics is shown to determine whether domestic a...

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Volume:	57
Main Author:	Randall Akee Arnab K. Basu Arjun Bedi Nancy H. Chau
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Zielgruppe:	Professional
Place of publication:	CHICAGO University of Chicago Press 01.05.2014 UNIV CHICAGO PRESS
published in:	The Journal of law & economics Vol. 57; no. 2; pp. 349 - 386
Data of publication:	20140501
ISSN:	0022-2186 1537-5285
EISSN:	1537-5285
Discipline:	Economics Law
Subjects:	Human trafficking Prostitution Traffic laws Law enforcement Countries Employment Amnesty Sex trafficking Search and seizure Elasticity of demand Economics Business & Economics Social Sciences Law Government & Law Labor mobility Human smuggling Supply and demand Research MIGRATION MARKET
Online Access:	Fulltext
Database:	Social Sciences Citation Index Web of Science - Social Sciences Citation Index - 2014 Web of Knowledge Web of Science CrossRef Gale General OneFile (A&I only) Academic OneFile (A&I only) Database information Databases - DBIS