 Jobs, News and Re-offending after IncarcerationRoberto Galbiati,
Aurélie Ouss and
Arnaud Philippe
No 41, Sciences Po publications from Sciences Po Abstract: While theoretically important, the relationship between crime and employment is difficult to measure empirically. This paper addresses major identification challenges by exploiting high frequency data of daily online postings on job openings and closings at the county level, merged with individual-level administrative data about all inmates released from French prisons. We find that people who are released when jobs are being created are less likely to recidivate; conversely, people who are released when jobs are being cut are more likely to recidivate. We further show that news on job creation matters, over and beyond actual employment opportunities, suggesting implications for crime-control policies. From a methodological standpoint, this paper demonstrates how using media and online information on jobs can generate higher-frequency variation than administrative employment data, and help to overcome identification challenges to capture effects of variations in job market opportunities, especially when combined with other administrative sources. Keywords: Labor market conditions; Opportunity; Crime; Recidivism (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spo:wpmain:info:hdl:2441/6lb0bbni2p86t8ib82gjce1ok1 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in Sciences Po publications from Sciences Po Contact information at EDIRC. |
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