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Title: Post-prison employment quality and future criminal justice contact

Citation Type: Journal Article

Publication Year: 2020

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ISSN: 23778261

DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2020.6.1.07

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Abstract: 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 prison spells. Some evidence indicates that parolees who find high-quality employment experience fewer arrests or returns to prison than otherwise similar parolees who find low-quality employment, with the effects most evident when comparing employment in the highest- and lowest-quality industries. Low-quality employment does not appear to reduce future criminal justice contact relative to unemployment.

Url: https://www.rsfjournal.org/content/6/1/154

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Authors: Labriola, Joe

Periodical (Full): RSF

Issue: 1

Volume: 6

Pages: 154-172

Data Collections: IPUMS CPS

Topics: Crime and Deviance, Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Other

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