Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/119398 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
Economics of Security Working Paper No. 72
Publisher: 
Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW), Berlin
Abstract: 
We develop a new index measuring governments' anti-trafficking policies for up to 180 countries over the 2000-2010 period. We assess a country's level of compliance in the three main dimensions of anti-trafficking policies - prosecution, protection and prevention. The results show that compliance with prosecution policy is highest, while governmental efforts to protect victims of human trafficking remain weakest. Overall, developed countries perform better than the rest of the world. We employ the new indices to investigate what determines anti-trafficking policies. We find that compliance with anti-trafficking policies significantly decreases with corruption and is higher in countries that also respect the rights of women. We also find some tentative evidence for spatial dependence in anti-trafficking policies.
Subjects: 
human trafficking
human rights
compliance
anti-trafficking policies
JEL: 
O15
F22
P41
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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