Prisoners' labour market history and aspirations: A focus on Western Australia
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 diffe...
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| description | 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. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-232382017-09-13T13:59:02Z Prisoners' labour market history and aspirations: A focus on Western Australia Giles, M. Le, Tram 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. 2007 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/23238 10.1111/j.1475-4932.2007.00374.x Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Asia restricted |
| spellingShingle | Giles, M. Le, Tram Prisoners' labour market history and aspirations: A focus on Western Australia |
| title | Prisoners' labour market history and aspirations: A focus on Western Australia |
| title_full | Prisoners' labour market history and aspirations: A focus on Western Australia |
| title_fullStr | Prisoners' labour market history and aspirations: A focus on Western Australia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Prisoners' labour market history and aspirations: A focus on Western Australia |
| title_short | Prisoners' labour market history and aspirations: A focus on Western Australia |
| title_sort | prisoners' labour market history and aspirations: a focus on western australia |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/23238 |