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Title: Stigma in the Labor Market: Evidence from Juveniles Transferred to Adult Court and Occupations with Mandated Criminal Background Checks
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Finlay, Keith |
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Stigma in the Labor Market: Evidence from Juveniles Transferred to Adult Court and Occupations with Mandated Criminal Background Checks Presented: San Diego CA, American Economic Association Annual Meeting, January 2013 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: American Economic Association Keyword(s): Criminal Justice System; Discrimination; Discrimination, Job; Incarceration/Jail; Labor Market Outcomes Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. At the end of 2011, almost seven million US residents were under the supervision of the correction system. An unknown but significantly larger number of people has at some point been under the supervision of the correction system. As ex-offenders are released, they face the challenge of reentering the labor market. This paper examines a broad set of policies that influence whether an individual’s criminal history record is observed by a potential employer. Using the first fourteen waves of the NLSY97, there is evidence that labor market outcomes are worse for ex-offenders when their criminal histories are easily accessible to employers. Non-offenders from highly offending groups have significantly better labor market outcomes in the presence of open records. The net effect of open information supports the notion that employers statistically discriminate in the absence of criminal history data. |
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Finlay, Keith. "Stigma in the Labor Market: Evidence from Juveniles Transferred to Adult Court and Occupations with Mandated Criminal Background Checks." Presented: San Diego CA, American Economic Association Annual Meeting, January 2013. |