Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/161816
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
GLO Discussion Paper No. 77
Publisher: 
Global Labor Organization (GLO), Maastricht
Abstract: 
Standard labor market models predict that the likelihood of employment increases, hours worked increase, and individuals transition from less-skilled and temporary jobs to more skilled and more stable employment as they age. I examine the association between age and transactional sex work using national household surveys from Zambia, one of the few settings with general population surveys asking women about transactional sex and a relatively high documented prevalence of employment in transactional sex. My results indicate that the likelihood of employment in transactional sex sharply falls with age. Increased employment opportunities outside of transactional sex do not appear to explain the transactional sex employment-age profile and marital status appears to explain only a portion of it. These findings are consistent with the hypothesis that clients prefer younger females and suggest that interventions designed to reduce client demand younger females may be particularly effective at reducing transactional sex.
Subjects: 
age
employment
labor supply
transactional sex
Zambia
JEL: 
J10
J40
O10
R23
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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