By Marina Della Giusta

Empirical and mathematically rigorous, this booklet offers a learn of the economics of prostitution instead of concentrating on the sociological and cultural issues. utilizing fiscal instruments of study, across the world established editors have prepare a theoretically educated quantity that explores the provision and insist of prostitution.Prostitution is a globalized regarding hundreds of thousands of staff and it really is characterised by way of a excessive measure of inequality in operating stipulations (ranging from slavery to self-managed and legalized unionized employment), by means of diversified sub-markets and completely built-in within the effective system.Taking a provocative method of prostitution, this publication is a needs to learn for college students and researchers within the quarter of gender and economics.

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Comparing our sample with the national survey, we note an underrepresentation of whites relative to other ethnic groups. On average, our clients are slightly older than the national sample and more of them are not married relative to in the national sample. They also have unhappier marriages, more sex-partners compared to the national sample, lower frequencies of sex during the 12 months prior to the interview, and are on average better educated compared with the national sample: 71 per cent have at least some college after highschool, against 35 per cent nationally.

1 Description of the data The dataset contains background characteristics, attitudes and reported behaviours of arrested male clients of female street sex workers in four US cities (San Francisco, Portland, Las Vegas, Santa Chiara) over the period 1996–1999 (Monto, 2000a). 15 Clients who were caught at the moment of paying a street sex worker and arrested were asked to participate in the San Francisco’s First Offender Prostitution Program followed by similar initiatives in Santa Clara and Fresno, California and Las Vegas, Nevada.

If a33 < 0, the marginal utility 22 A reputation approach to the analysis of the sex market of a higher reputation capacity declines with the size of this capacity. Note, however, that it is not necessary for the quasi-concavity of the utility function that both these two parameters are negative, only the sum of them has to be negative. Provided a33 < 0, we observe from equation (7) that the higher the reputation capacity, Rc , is, the lower is the marginal cost from reputation effects of consuming sex, and the more likely it is that sex is consumed.

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