Does Competition Eliminate Discrimination? Evidence from the Commercial Sex Market in Singapore

The street sex worker market in Geylang, Singapore is a highly competitive market in which clients can search legally at negligible cost, making it ideal for testing Diamond’s hypothesis regarding search and monopoly pricing. As Diamond predicts, price discrimination survives in this market. Despite...

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Main Authors: Li, Huailu, Lang, Kevin, Leong, Kaiwen
Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2016
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/83820
http://hdl.handle.net/10220/41581
http://www.nber.org/papers/w20911
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Institution: Nanyang Technological University
Language: English