Employment and wages before and after incarceration: Evidence from Hungary

Artikel

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.

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• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Journal: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies ; ISSN: 2193-9012 ; Volume: 4 ; Year: 2015 ; Issue: 21 ; Pages: 1-21 ; Heidelberg: Springer

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law ; Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search ; Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs: Other
• Thema: Incarceration ; Prison effects ; Unemployment ; Wage loss ; Discrimination

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Czafit, Bence ; Köllő, János
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Springer
• (wo): Heidelberg
• (wann): 2015

Weitere Informationen

• DOI: doi:10.1186/s40174-015-0044-z
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/127461
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ