The Effect of Employment Frictions on Crime

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Engelhardt, Bryan
• 署名单位: College of the Holy Cross
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF LABOR ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0734-306X
• DOI: 10.1086/651541
• 发表日期: 2010
• 页码: 677-718
• 关键词: job search model; labor-market; equilibrium search; unemployment; rates; INEQUALITY; duration; size

摘要

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%.