RT Book
T1 The spread of anti-trafficking policies: evidence from a new index
T2 CESifo working papers Category 2, Public choice
JF CESifo working papers
A1 Cho, Seo-Young
A1 Dreher, Axel 1972-
A1 Neumayer, Eric 1970-
A2 Dreher, Axel 1972-
A2 Neumayer, Eric 1970-
LA English
PP Munich
PB Univ., Center for Economic Studies
YR 2011
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1611189632
AB We analyze the spread of policies dealing with international trafficking in human beings. Arguing that countries are unlikely to make independent choices, we identify pressure, externalities and learning or emulation as plausible diffusion mechanisms for spatial dependence in anti-trafficking policies. We develop a new index measuring governments' overall anti-trafficking policies for 177 countries over the 2000-2009 period. We also assess a country's level of compliance in the three main constituent dimensions of anti-trafficking policies - prosecution, protection and prevention. Employing a spatial autoregressive model, we find that, with the exception of victim protection measures, anti-trafficking policies diffuse across contiguous countries and main trading partners due to externality effects. We find evidence for learning or emulation effects in all policy domains, with countries looking toward peers with similar political views or cultural values. Surprisingly, major destination countries do not seem to exert pressure on relevant main countries of origin or transit to ratchet up their policies.
NO Literaturverz. S. 36 - 40
NO Zusätzliches Online-Angebot unter www.SSRN.com, www.RePEc.org und www.CESifo-group.org/wp