Employment and wages before and after incarceration – evidence from Hungary

IZA Journal of European Labor Studies

Table 4 Fixed-effects estimates for selected sub-samples of non-recidivists

Sample variants	Employment	Daily earnings
Both genders^a	−0.004	−0.080^***
	(1.06)	(5.55)
Only men^a	−0.004	−0.086^***
	(1.04)	(4.83)
Persons aged 16–22 inclusive	0.002	−0.067^***
	(0.44)	(4.29)
Only persons older than 22 in 2002	−0.004	−0.077^***
	(0.91)	(4.35)
Aged 22–35	0.003	−0.067^***
	(0.51)	(2.96)
Older than 35	−0.008	−0.134^***
	(1.59)	(4.51)
Inmates serving 1–3 months in prison^a	−0.012^*	−0.080^**
	(1.76)	(2.21)
Inmates serving 1–6 months in prison^a	−0.012^**	−0.086^***
	(2.13)	(2.68)
Inmates serving more than 3 months in prison^a	−0.008	−0.078^***
	(1.56)	(3.17)
Inmates serving more than 6 months in prison^a	−0.007	−0.064^***
	(1.10)	(2.89)

The coefficients relate post-prison employment and daily earnings to their pre-prison values; t-values in brackets. Significant at the *0.1, **0.05 and ***0.01 level. Standard errors are adjusted for clustering by persons
^aThe estimates relate to persons older than 22