| 来源类型 | Testimony
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| 规范类型 | 其他
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| Empirical evidence on ‘Ban the Box’ policies |
| Stan Veuger; Daniel Shoag
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| 发表日期 | 2019-03-25
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| 出版年 | 2019
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | March 25, 2019
The Honorable Elijah E. Cummings Chairman, House Committee on Oversight and Reform 2157 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515
The Honorable Jim Jordan Ranking Member, House Committee on Oversight and Reform 2157 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515
RE: H.R. 1076 (The Fair Chance to Compete for Jobs Act of 2019)
Dear Chairman Cummings and Ranking Member Jordan:
We write in response to testimony provided in opposition to H.R. 1076 (The Fair Chance to Compete for Jobs Act 2019) by Professor Jennifer Doleac of Texas A&M University. In brief, Professor Doleac’s testimony underplays key findings in the academic literature that support “Ban the Box” policies, and mischaracterizes the significance of results from other studies. It is vital that returning citizens encounter as much of a level playing field in the labor market as possible. As such, we hope to clarify the academic record as the Committee continues its consideration of the Fair Chance Act.
Three points in particular are worth emphasizing.
First, Ban the Box policies help improve the labor market outcomes of residents of high-crime neighborhoods, a good proxy for the labor market outcomes of workers with a criminal record. They have increased employment in the highest-crime neighborhoods by as much as 4%. This increase occurred to a large extent in the public sector, where workers with criminal records saw their odds of employment improve dramatically. Ban the Box legislation thus appears to have been successful if judged on the basis of its proclaimed proximate objective: making it easier for individuals with criminal records to find and retain employment. The mechanism through which this happened seems quite straightforward: in all likelihood, employers who used to ask about an applicant’s criminal history used to scare some potential employees away and used to choose not to interview some others. For workers with a criminal record, Ban the Box policies have also been found to increase the likelihood of finding a public sector job by 30%. These studies directly contradict Professor Doleac’s claim that “[c]urrent evidence suggests that Ban the Box may not increase employment for people with criminal records, and might even reduce it.”
Read the full letter here. |
| 主题 | Criminal Justice
; Public Economics
; US Labor Market
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| 标签 | Criminal Justice Reform
; Economic opportunity
; Law and economics
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| URL | https://www.aei.org/research-products/testimony/empirical-evidence-on-ban-the-box-policies/
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| 来源智库 | American Enterprise Institute (United States)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/209892
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推荐引用方式
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Stan Veuger,Daniel Shoag. Empirical evidence on ‘Ban the Box’ policies. 2019.
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FairChanceAct-ResearcherLetter.pdf
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Adobe PDF
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