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Title: The Effect of Employment Frictions on Crime
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Engelhardt, Bryan |
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The Effect of Employment Frictions on Crime Journal of Labor Economics 28,3 (July 2010): 677-718. Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/651541 Cohort(s): NLSY79, NLSY97 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Keyword(s): Crime; Incarceration/Jail; Job Search; Training, On-the-Job; Unemployment This article provides estimates on how long it takes for released inmates to find a job and, when they find a job, how less likely they are to be incarcerated. An on-the-job search model with crime is used to model criminal behavior, derive the estimation method, and analyze policies including a job placement program. The results show that the unemployed are incarcerated twice as fast as the employed and take on average 6 months to find a job. The article demonstrates that reducing the average unemployment spell of previously incarcerated criminals by 3 months reduces crime and recidivism by more than 5%. |
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Engelhardt, Bryan. "The Effect of Employment Frictions on Crime." Journal of Labor Economics 28,3 (July 2010): 677-718.
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