Doctoral Dissertation Research: Effects of Contradictory Signals on Post-Incarceration Labor Market Outcomes

这个项目考察了以监狱工作证书和犯罪记录为信号的人力资本对劳动力市场结果的相对影响。它还调查了这些影响是否因人口统计类别而异。这项研究将增进人们对雇主在做出招聘决定时如何评估和权衡监狱证书的理解，以及以前被监禁的男性如何利用向雇主发出潜在矛盾信号的证书来驾驭求职过程。调查结果将与监狱认证计划的提供和结构以及决策者和从业人员为劳动力市场做好准备的方式有关。本项目的数据将通过以下方式收集：1)通过在线向雇主提交被操纵的S简历进行审计研究，以及2)对50名雇主和50名以前被监禁的人进行访谈。在S的简历中，拥有监狱学徒证和人口特征都是被操纵的。与雇主的访谈询问了他们认为帮助以前被监禁的人克服记录的品质，对拥有监狱证书的以前被监禁的人采取的预防措施，以及对监狱培训质量的态度。对以前被监禁的人的采访询问了以前和现在的工作经验、工作满意度、获得监狱认证的动机，以及监狱培训在他们日常工作中的用处。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This project examines the relative effects of human capital signaled by prison work certificates and a criminal record on labor market outcomes. It also investigates whether these effects vary according to demographic category. The study will advance understanding of how employers evaluate and weigh prison certifications when making hiring decisions and the ways formerly incarcerated men navigate the job search process with credentials that send potentially contradictory signals to employers. Findings will be relevant to the provision and structure of prison credentialing programs and ways decision makers and practitioners can best prepare incarcerated men for the labor market. Data for this project will be collected through: 1) an audit study via online submission of manipulated resumés to employers and 2) interviews with 50 employers and 50 formerly incarcerated people. In the resumés, possession of a prison apprenticeship certificate and demographic characteristics are manipulated. Interviews with employers inquire about qualities they perceive help formerly incarcerated people overcome records, precautions taken with formerly incarcerated people who possess prison certifications, and attitudes regarding the quality of prison training. Interviews with formerly incarcerated men ask about prior and current work experience, job satisfaction, motivations for obtaining prison certifications, and the usefulness of prison training in their everyday work.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.