Incarceration and Racial Inequality in Men's Employment

Western, Bruce; Pettit, Becky

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Incarceration and Racial Inequality in Men's Employment

Western, Bruce, Pettit, Becky·2000·ILR Review

DOI 10.1177/001979390005400101

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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 significantly reduces estimated employment rates for African Americans, young workers, and young high school dropouts. The authors find that employment among young black male high school dropouts steadily declined between 1982 and 1996 despite periods of very low unemployment in the labor market as a whole. Standard labor force data, which include no incarceration data, understate black-white inequality in employment among young dropouts by about 45%.

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Authors: Western, B., & Pettit, B.
Affiliations: Princeton University (US)
ORCID: Western, Bruce
Venue: ILR Review
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Published: 2000-10
Volume: 54
Issue: 1
Pages: 3-16
ISSN: 0019-7939 (ISSN-L)
2162-271X
DOI: 10.1177/001979390005400101
OpenAlex: W2027359074
Cited by: 192
References: 25
Citations by year: 2025: 4 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 6 · 2020: 6 · 2019: 9 · 2018: 8 · 2017: 3 · 2016: 6 · 2015: 3 · 2014: 11 · 2013: 11 · 2012: 12
FWCI: 48.88
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: closed
Licence: journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license (tdm)
Locations: Industrial and Labor Relations Review (publishedVersion)
RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
Topics: Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis
Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Labor market dynamics and wage inequality
Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Education and Labor Relations
Keywords: incarceration, racial inequality, employment, black-white wage gap, African American men, young workers, high school dropout, employment-to-population ratio, labor market inequality

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