To estimate employment-population ratios for black and white men with an adjustment for incarceration - a factor overlooked by most research on employment inequality - the authors combine data from surveys of prisons and jails with data from the Current Population Survey. This adjustment...

This Article considers the impact of labor market discrimination against ex-felons on both the life chances of individual criminal defendants and the systemically unequal American labor market as a whole. I argue that there is an immediate relationship between employment discrimination against...

Over the last decades, researchers have found compelling evidence of hiring discrimination toward ethnic minorities based on field experiments using fictitious job applications. Despite increasing efforts to discover why ethnic minorities experience hiring penalties, the academic world has not...