| 来源类型 | Working Paper
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| 规范类型 | 报告
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| DOI | 10.3386/w4551
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| 来源ID | Working Paper 4551
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| The Effect of Convicton on Income Through the Life Cycle |
| Daniel Nagin; Joel Waldfogel
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| 发表日期 | 1993-11-01
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| 出版年 | 1993
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | Existing studies of the impact of conviction on income and employment do not consider life cycle issues. We postulate that conviction reduces access to career jobs offering stable, long-term employment. Instead, conviction relegates offenders to spot market jobs, which may have higher pay at the outset of the career but do not offer stable employment or rapidly rising wages. Thus, first-time conviction may increase the wages of young workers while decreasing the wages of older workers. We test our theory with data on federal offenders and find that first-time conviction has a positive and significant effect on income for offenders under age 25 and an increasingly negative and significant impact for offenders over age 30. These results imply that the present value of income lost as a result of conviction varies over the life cycle, reaching a maximum in the middle of the career. We find that the gains sought by these offenders follow similar profiles, suggesting that prospective offenders are deterred by the possibility of lost future income. Because the discounted loss in future income facing young offenders may be small, our results may provide part of an explanation of youth crime. |
| 主题 | Other
; Law and Economics
; Labor Economics
; Labor Market Structures
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| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w4551
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| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/561930
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Daniel Nagin,Joel Waldfogel. The Effect of Convicton on Income Through the Life Cycle. 1993.
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