Employment and wages before and after incarceration – evidence from Hungary

IZA Journal of European Labor Studies

Table 3 Estimates for convicts with one versus several prison spells in 2002–08. Fixed-effects estimates of equation (3)

	Employment	Daily earnings
Recidivists between two prison spells	−0.034^***	−0.048
	(8.64)	(1.41)
Recidivists after their last prison spell	−0.000	−0.096^**
	(0.10)	(2.02)
Non-recidivists after their single prison spell	−0.009^**	−0.089^***
	(2.47)	(5.00)
Reference values for recidivists (pre-prison period):
Mean (%)	8.0	66.1
Standard deviation	(26.6)	(46.3)

Significant at the *0.1, **0.05, ***0.01 level; t-values in parentheses. Standard errors are adjusted for clustering by persons
The coefficients show the level of employment/wages in the indicated periods relative to the pre-prison period
For further test statistics, see Appendix