From: The employability of ex-offenders: a field experiment in the Swedish labor market
Study, design, country | Crime stimuli | CVs | Jobs | Ratio |
---|---|---|---|---|
Schwartz and Skolnick (1962), correspondence, USA | Assault, unstated punishment | 100 | 100 | 2.70** |
Buikhuisen and Dijksterhuis (1971), correspondence, Netherlands | Theft, drunk driving, revoked driver license | 150 | 150 | 1.79*** |
Boshier and Johnson (1974), correspondence, New Zealand | Theft, drunk driving, unstated punishment | 122 | 61 | 1.22 |
Pager (2003), audit, USA | Drug felony, 18 months of jail | 700 | 350 | 2.26*** |
Pager et al. (2009a), audit, USA | Drug felony, 18 months of jail | 340 | 340 | 1.80*** |
Pager et al. (2009b), audit, USA | Drug felony, 18 months of jail | 500 | 250 | 1.87*** |
Uggen et al. (2014), audit, USA | Disorderly conduct, no charge or conviction | 600 | 300 | 1.14 |
Baert and Verhofstadt (2015), correspondence, Belgium | Juvenile delinquency, 1 year of open detention | 972 | 486 | 1.29* |
Decker et al. (2015), audit, USA | Drug felony, 6 months of jail | 266 | 57 | 1.77* |
Decker et al. (2015), correspondence, USA | Drug felony, 6 months of jail | 3108 | 518 | 1.16 |
Drug or property felony, unstated punishment | 2655 | 1426 | 1.60*** |