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Title: Employer access to criminal history data and the employment of young black men

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Publication Year: 2006

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Abstract: Criminal background checks have become a routine part of pre-employment screening. Since black men are overrepresented in the criminal justice system, increasing use of criminal background checks might have a significant employment effect for black men. Using a unique dataset on state availability of criminal history data over the Internet, I find that the relative employment of young black men was lowered by more than 2% in states that made the records of former criminal offenders available on the Internet compared with states that did not.

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Authors: Finlay, Keith

Publisher: UC-Irvine

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Crime and Deviance, Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Race and Ethnicity

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