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Mykerezi, Elton Marko, Monika Aultman, Stephen |
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The Impact of Perceived Race Discrimination in the Labor Market on the Criminal Activity of African American Youth Working Paper, Department of Applied Economics, University of Minnesota, November 2008 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Department of Applied Economics, University of Minnesota Keyword(s): Crime; Discrimination, Racial/Ethnic; Labor Force Participation; Labor Market Demographics Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. We study the impact that perceived race discrimination in the labor market has on the subsequent criminal activity of young African Americans using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (1979). Results indicate that perceived discrimination in the labor market yields sizable increases in the incidence and intensity of property crimes among African American men. We find no evidence of an impact on violent crimes for men or on crime in general for women. These results are robust to different assumptions regarding respondent refusals to self report crime and other empirical specification issues. |
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Mykerezi, Elton, Monika Marko and Stephen Aultman. "The Impact of Perceived Race Discrimination in the Labor Market on the Criminal Activity of African American Youth." Working Paper, Department of Applied Economics, University of Minnesota, November 2008. |