During 1998 and 1999, I participated in a series of intergovernmental meetings in Vienna,
convened under the auspices of the United Nations. Their purpose was to hammer out, as …

Human trafficking is a humanitarian problem of global scale, but quantitative research on the
issue barely exists. This paper is the first attempt to analyze the economics of human …

Feminist work on global human trafficking has highlighted the conceptual difficulty of
differentiating between trafficking and migration. This contribution uses a cross-country …

We develop a model in which some child labor is exploitative. Since exploited child laborers
are paid less than the value of the marginal product of labor, there is scope for policy …

We analyze a model of the migrant smuggling market where smugglers differ in the capacity
to exploit their clients' labor at the destination. We suggest that destination countries with …

Child trafficking is a deep-seated social issue with enduring consequences that remain
concealed or less obvious to the general public. We argue that the intensity of child …

Border and interior enforcement, legal penalties, and the market for smugglers distinguish
undocumented migration from legal migration and introduce a number of challenges for …

Human trafficking is a humanitarian problem of global scale, but quantitative research on the
issue barely exists. This paper is a first attempt to explore the economic drivers of human …

The paper examines how China's land reform between 1978 and 1984 altered economic
incentives, leading to observable household responses, with involvement in illegal adoption …

Previous studies on child trafficking have focused on transborder phenomena due to the
magnitude of the levels of exploitation observed in this context. Unfortunately, such a focus …