Doing time and the unemployment line: the impact of incarceration on ex-inmates’ employment outcomes

This study measures the influence multiple incarcerations and age at first incarceration have on the lengths of time ex-inmates are not employed and the amount of time ex-inmates spend looking for employment. Fixed-effects analyses of longitudinal data from the Rochester Youth Development Study (RYD...

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Main Author: Emmert, Amanda D. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2019
In: Crime & delinquency
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Keywords:
Arbeitslosigkeit
Employment
Entlassene Strafgefangene
Fixed effects
Gefängnis
Incarceration
Inhaftierung
Offender reentry
RYDS
Reintegration
Wiedereingliederung
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Summary:This study measures the influence multiple incarcerations and age at first incarceration have on the lengths of time ex-inmates are not employed and the amount of time ex-inmates spend looking for employment. Fixed-effects analyses of longitudinal data from the Rochester Youth Development Study (RYDS) finds a relationship between incarceration at younger ages and longer non-employment experiences, but no association between incarcerations between 23 and 32 years old and non-employment lengths. Meanwhile, these individuals who experience incarceration younger spend equivalent time looking for employment as their never-incarcerated peers, despite having nonequivalent periods without employment.
ISSN:1552-387X
DOI:10.1177/0011128718779363