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  • 017410

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  • Published 2001.
  • 26 pages.

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The Labor Market Consequences of Incarceration

Publication year: 2001 | Cataloged on: Oct. 31, 2006
ANNOTATION: An analysis of "the mechanisms that plausibly link incarceration to employment and earnings. . .[and] the challenges of causal inference for a highly self-selected sample of criminal offenders" is presented (p. i). This paper is divided into four parts: ex-offenders in the labor market; identifying and measuring the effects of incarceration; research designs and future research; and conclusion. It appears that prison time can negatively impact an individual's earnings, especially the elderly or white-collar ex-offender's income.
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