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Author: Regules, Ricardo
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1. Regules, Ricardo
Rivero, Estela
From Juvenile Delinquency to Adult Employment: The Implications of Drug Dealing at Young Ages for Job Mobility in the U.S.
Presented: Washington DC, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, March-April 2016
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Population Association of America
Keyword(s): Crime; Delinquency/Gang Activity; Employment, History; Mobility, Job

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Most interventions to decrease violence are based on the assumptions, mostly supply based, that 1) the youngsters who opt to engage in criminal activities live in environments where there are no other opportunities, 2) they are NEETs (Not in Education, Employment or Training), and 3) once they are offered other opportunities they will take them, if they are more profitable than a career in crime. Nevertheless, none of these assumptions has been tested over the long term. In this paper we use the National Longitudinal Youth Survey 1980 Special Supplement to analyze the long-term employment trajectories of individuals engaging on drug selling and compare them with those who have never engaged in a criminal activity.
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Regules, Ricardo and Estela Rivero. "From Juvenile Delinquency to Adult Employment: The Implications of Drug Dealing at Young Ages for Job Mobility in the U.S." Presented: Washington DC, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, March-April 2016.