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Prisoners’ Labour Market History and Aspirations: A Focus on Western Australia*
Author(s) -
GILES MARGARET,
LE ANH T.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
economic record
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.365
H-Index - 42
eISSN - 1475-4932
pISSN - 0013-0249
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-4932.2007.00374.x
Subject(s) - employability , prison , differential (mechanical device) , labour economics , economics , demographic economics , criminology , sociology , economic growth , engineering , aerospace engineering
This paper examines the employability and labour market aspirations of prisoners. The results suggest that repeat prisoners are less likely to be employed than non‐repeat prisoners. However, a large proportion of the employment differential between repeat and non‐repeat prisoners is due to differences in coefficients. There is no evidence to suggest that the frequency of incarceration affects individual characteristics that may limit prisoners’ labour market aspirations after their release from prison.