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Erscheinungsjahr: 
2015
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[Journal:] IZA Journal of European Labor Studies [ISSN:] 2193-9012 [Volume:] 4 [Issue:] 21 [Publisher:] Springer [Place:] Heidelberg [Year:] 2015 [Pages:] 1-21
Verlag: 
Springer, Heidelberg
Zusammenfassung: 
We study the entry into legitimate employment and earnings of a large sample of convicts released from Hungarian prisons in 2002-08. The employment rate of the prisoners falls short of 20% one year before incarceration, and they earn 25% below the national average. We identify the effect of prison by exploiting differences in the timing of incarceration and also by estimating fixed-effect models. For convicts with a single prison term, we find an initially negative effect on employment, which turns positive after a year, though the impact on earnings is permanently negative. A comparison with recidivists suggests that these results are driven by a drop in the reservation wages of "reformed" criminals. This reading is supported by further data showing that the average ex-inmate tends to make increased efforts to find a legitimate source of livelihood and support in job search.
Schlagwörter: 
Incarceration
Prison effects
Unemployment
Wage loss
Discrimination
JEL: 
K42
J64
J39
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