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Results for ex-convict, employment
1 results foundAuthor: Smith, Sandra Susan Title: Searching for Work with a Criminal Record Summary: To date, researchers have been very attentive to how the stigma of criminality informs employers’ hiring decisions, and, in the process, diminishes ex-offenders’ employment opportunities. Few, however, have investigated the extent to which the mark of a criminal record also shapes ex-offenders’ search strategies in ways that might either attenuate or amplify ex-offender effects. We fill this gap in the literature by investigating how arrest and conviction influence the search strategies that employed and unemployed job-seekers deploy to find work. Analysis of NLSY97 reveals that much of the disadvantage of penal contact comes with arrest, not conviction. Compared to non-arrestees, arrestees are less likely to search through friends and relatives, labor market intermediaries, and go-it-alone strategies. Lower odds of search across methods likely signify the disillusionment that these job-seekers feel after early attempts to find work fail. Further analysis reveals, however, that arrestees’ employment disadvantages are specific to their use of two methods. Go-it-alone strategies reduce arrestees’ odds that a search will end successfully (with a job), and network search significantly lengthens search duration. But labor market intermediation emerges as an equalizing force, moderating the effect of ex-offender status on employment outcomes. Significantly, too, race and gender mediate the relationships between search methods and search outcomes, highlighting how these axes of difference also help to structure ex-offenders’ labor market experiences. Details: Berkeley, CA: Department of Sociology University of California, Berkeley, 2012. 42p. Source: Internet Resource: Working Paper: Accessed July 24, 2012 at: http://www.law.berkeley.edu/files/csls/SmithSandraSEARCHING_WORKwith_CRIMINAL_RECORD-Jan_2012.pdf Year: 2012 Country: United States URL: http://www.law.berkeley.edu/files/csls/SmithSandraSEARCHING_WORKwith_CRIMINAL_RECORD-Jan_2012.pdf Shelf Number: 125753 Keywords: Ex-Convict, EmploymentEx-Offender, EmploymentLabor Market |