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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 › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › 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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