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Crime and the Labour Market : Evidence from a Survey of Inmates
Entorf, Horst - 2009
In this paper data from a survey of 1,771 inmates conducted in 31 German prisons provide microeconometric evidence on the relationship between individual anticipated labour market opportunities and the perceived probability of future recidivism. Results show that inmates with poor labour market...
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Rationalizable Suicides : Evidence from Changes in Inmates' Expected Length of Sentence
Campaniello, Nadia - 2014
Is there a rational component in the decision to commit suicide? Economists have been trying to shed light on this question by studying whether suicide rates are related to contemporaneous conditions. This paper goes one step further: we test whether suicides are linked to forward-looking...
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Intergenerational Effects of Incarceration
Bhuller, Manudeep - 2018
employment by 20 percentage points. We find no evidence that paternal incarceration affects a child's criminal activity or school …
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Prison Work and Convict Rehabilitation
Zanella, Giulio - 2020
I study the causal pathways that link prison work programs to convict rehabilitation, leveraging administrative data from Italy and combining quasi-experimental and structural econometric methods to achieve both a credible identification and the isolation of mechanisms. Due to competing...
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Collateral Costs : The Effects of Incarceration on the Employment and Earnings of Young Workers
Holzer, Harry J. - 2021
employment and earnings for those with criminal records …
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Incarceration, Recidivism, and Employment
Bhuller, Manudeep - 2018
's criminal justice system, offering new insights into how incarceration affects subsequent crime and employment. We construct a … panel dataset containing the criminal behavior and labor market outcomes of the entire population, and exploit the random … assignment of criminal cases to judges who differ systematically in their stringency in sentencing defendants to prison. Using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012915174
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Does Being "Left Behind" in Childhood Lead to Criminality in Adulthood? Evidence from Data on Rural-Urban Migrants and Prison Inmates in China
Cameron, Lisa A.; Meng, Xin; Zhang, Dandan - 2022
Large scale rural-to-urban migration and China's household registration system have resulted in about 61 million children being left-behind in rural villages when their parents migrate to the cities. This paper uses survey and experimental data from male rural-urban migrants prison inmates and...
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Personality Characteristics and the Decision to Become and Stay Self-Employed
Caliendo, Marco - 2011
This paper systematically investigates whether different kinds of personality characteristics influence entrepreneurial development. On the basis of a large, representative household panel survey, we examine the extent to which the Big Five traits and further personality characteristics, which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128222
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Which Institutions Encourage Entrepreneurs to Create Larger Firms?
Estrin, Saul - 2011
We develop entrepreneurship and institutional theory to explain variation in different types of entrepreneurship across individuals and institutional contexts. Our framework generates hypotheses about the negative impact of higher levels of corruption, weaker property rights and especially...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129940
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Personal Bankruptcy Law, Wealth and Entrepreneurship : Theory and Evidence from the Introduction of a 'Fresh Start'
Fossen, Frank M. - 2011
A personal bankruptcy law that allows for a "fresh start" after bankruptcy reduces the individual risk involved in entrepreneurial activity. On the other hand, as risk shifts to creditors who recover less of their credit after a debtor's bankruptcy, lenders may charge higher interest rates or...
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