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University of San Francisco
Crowded Out: The Effect of Sex Ratios on the Sex Worker Labor Market and Migration in India
Abstract
dc:description.abstract<p>India’s skewed sex ratios have lead to the destruction of marriage markets in many villages as well as an increase in violence against women. This paper examines how India’s distorted sex ratios effects the migration of sex workers. By using a modified gravity model of migration the results in this paper indicates that an over supply of sex workers in a local market leads to a crowding out effect, and pushes the women to migrate to districts with more men than women. This paper contributes to the literature by bringing more clarity to how the labor market impacts the decisions of sex workers.</p>
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Master of Science in International and Development Economics (MSIDEC)
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Thesis
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Economics
- Year dc:date.available
- 2015
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Dickerson, Michael
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- Jeese Anttila-Hughes
Subjects
dc:subject × 9Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Repository record dc:identifier
- https://repository.usfca.edu/thes/136
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:repository.usfca.edu:thes-1153