2020
DOI: 10.7758/rsf.2020.6.1.07
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Post-prison Employment Quality and Future Criminal Justice Contact

Abstract: Joe l a br Iol a Several theories linking post-prison employment to recidivism suggest that the quality of employment has a causal effect on future criminal justice contact. However, previous work testing these theories has not accounted for differential selection into high-quality employment. Using six years of post-release employment records, I document how post-prison job quality varies by industry. Then, I use inverse propensity score weighting to estimate the effect of job quality on future arrests and pr… Show more

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“… 7. LaBriola’s (2020) findings are also quite similar to those of Zatz and Stoll (2020), who find that states that threaten poor noncustodial fathers with jail time for nonpayment of child support generate more employment but lower wages for these men. …”
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“… 7. LaBriola’s (2020) findings are also quite similar to those of Zatz and Stoll (2020), who find that states that threaten poor noncustodial fathers with jail time for nonpayment of child support generate more employment but lower wages for these men. …”
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“…6 And the variation, over industries, in employer willingness to hire people with felony convictions creates another paradox: employment alone does not always greatly improve life outcomes. LaBriola’s (2020) study shows that employment in low-quality jobs does not reduce recidivism, which has been a strong policy incentive to help formerly incarcerated people gain employment. 7…”
Section: What Explains the Lower Rates Of Employment Among People Und...mentioning
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“…Research shows that we can improve public safety and reduce crime by focusing on integration rather than punishment. For example, stable, full-time employment in well-paying jobs promotes desistance from crime (Sampson and Laub 1993;Ramakers et al 2017;LaBriola 2020), but the low-wage work often mandated by parole requirements does not (Seim and Harding 2020).…”
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confidence: 99%