CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2015
| Author | Kőműves, Zsófia |
|---|---|
| Title | The Costs of Imprisonment: The Effect of Incarceration on Labor Market Outcomes in Hungary |
| Summary | This thesis evaluates the earnings and employment chance losses stemming from incarceration in Hungary over the period of 2003-2011. Using a matched employer-employee panel data set, I find that labor market outcomes of the convicts suffer large losses in the short-run, but recover quickly to their own pre-prison levels. However, losses remain large and sustained if we take into account how the labor market outcomes would have developed in the absence of the incarceration, by using a matched non-incarcerated control group. Occupational and firm-level characteristics do not affect the dynamics of the earnings and employment chance losses substantially. High-skilled workers suffer large earnings losses but not a decrease in employment rates, while the low-skilled experience reduced employment chances but no wage losses. The costs of incarceration radically increase with both sentence length and age. |
| Supervisor | Telegdy, Álmos |
| Department | Economics MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2015/komuves_zsofia.pdf |
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