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Investigating Prison Reentry: The Impact of Conviction Status on the Employment Prospects of Young Men. Final report
Investigating Prison Reentry: The Impact of Conviction Status on the Employment Prospects of Young Men. Final report
Publication year:
2009
| Cataloged on:
Nov. 12, 2009
ANNOTATION: The relationship between the reentry of ex-prisoners into the community and their ability to find employment is examined. Sections following an abstract are: introduction; Stage 1—hiring experiment; and Stage 2—an employer’s perspective. These articles are appended to this report: “Sequencing Disadvantages: Barriers to Employment Facing Young Black and White Men with Criminal Records” by Devah Pager, Bruce Western, and Naomi Sugie; “Discrimination in a Low-Wage Labor Market: A Field Experiment” by Devah, Western, and Bart Bonikowski; “”Bayesian Bigot? Statistical Discrimination, Stereotypes, and Employer Decision Making” by Pager and Diana Karafin; and “Walking the Talk? What Employers Say Versus What They Do” by Pager and Lincoln Quillian.
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