Human Trafficking, A Shadow of Migration – Evidence from Germany
利用150个国家的宏观数据，研究了德国移民与人口贩运的关系，发现移民网络会吸引来自同一来源国的人口贩运，但该效应随来源国收入增加而减弱，对高收入国家不显著。
This paper investigates relationship between migration and human trafficking in Germany by analyzing macro-level data from 150 countries. The empirical results suggest that migrant networks of a specific source country pull human trafficking from that respective country. However, the migration effect varies across different income levels of source countries. The positive effect of migration on human trafficking decreases as income increases, and furthermore, the effect is irrelevant to high income countries. In addition, the migration effect is particularly significant on the criminalisation side of human trafficking, but the evidence is less clear when it concerns the victimisation side.