Transnational Trafficking, Law Enforcement, and Victim Protection: A Middleman Trafficker’s Perspective
研究了人口贩运市场中贩运者的跨境流动便利性和买方需求弹性，通过讨价还价模型和引力模型估计，发现国内外打击非法就业的措施相互加强，表明贩运者流动性高且需求缺乏弹性。
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 and foreign crackdowns on illicit employment mutually reinforce or counteract one another in efforts to stem the tide of trafficking. Estimation results from a gravity model of trafficking present evidence consistent with the mutual-reinforcement view, indicating considerable ease of mobility and inelastic demand.