Is it disqualifying? Practitioner responses to criminal offenses in hiring decisions
There is considerable variance in the factors that impact whether someone with a criminal record will obtain employment, such as age,...
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Legal Ambiguity in Managerial Assessments of Criminal Records
Employers who have less guidance on how to assess an applicant with a criminal record rely more on their personal beliefs and...
The Effect of an Applicant's Criminal History on Employer Hiring Decisions and Screening Practices
According to this 2001 survey of Los Angeles employers , employers are mostly unwilling to hire formerly incarcerated people. Employer...
Will Employers Hire Former Offenders?: Employer Preference, Background Checks, their Determinants
In the early 90s, most employers were unwilling to hire someone with a criminal record. This study, one of the first and largest of its...
Criminal record checking and employment: The importance of policy and proximity
Government regulation requiring employers to run criminal background checks and implementing other barriers to employment for people...
Criminal Records, Positive Employment Credentials, and Race
Job applicants who have felony convictions as well as positive credentials (such as job training, an occupational license, or a reference...
Criminal Records and Employment: A Survey of Experiences and Attitudes in the United States
The majority of employers ask about criminal records and of those that do, a vast majority (87%) ask about them on the application. This...
Bad jobs and good workers: The hiring of ex-prisoners in a segmented economy
The most powerful factor in hiring for jobs at the bottom of the labor market is finding workers who are willing to do the work. These...
Why Do Employers Discriminate Against People With Records? Stigma and the Case for Ban the Box
The stigma of a criminal record has significant influence on employers' decisions not to hire someone with a criminal record, in addition...
The Effect of Criminal Records on Access to Employment
Even fairly minor felony records have large negative effects on employer callbacks during the application process. This study offers the...
Laws, Licenses and the Offender's Right to Work: A Study of State Laws Restricting the Occupational
Occupational licensing reform to remove barriers to employment for people with criminal records has been taking place for decades. This...
Guild-Ridden Labor Markets: The Curious Case of Occupational Licensing
Licensing should be deregulated and certification should be used in its place whenever possible, argues the author. Delving into the...
Testing the Utility of Licensing: Evidence from a Field Experiment on Occupational Regulation
Licensing an occupation may be more motivated by increasing the wages for people that are already members of that profession through...
The Undertaker's Cut: Challenging the Rational Basis for Casket Licensure
Increasing the wages for people that are already members of a specific profession by limiting competition is more often the motivation...
Occupational Licensing and American Workers
Lower wages and higher unemployment for unlicensed workers and decreased mobility for licensed workers suggest there are large social...
A License For Protection: Why are States Regulating More and More Occupations?
The recent boom in occupational licensing has been driven in part by people who are already members of that occupation, out of a desire...
Sanctioned Unemployment: The Impact of Occupational Licensing Restrictions on Ex-Offenders
The broad discretion given to licensing boards to approve or deny licensure leads to biased and arbitrary decision-making, creating...
Credentialing Decisions and Criminal Records: A Narrative Approach
Evidence of rehabilitation and that the crime was an anomaly are the two factors most relied on by administrative law judges when...
At What Cost? State and National Estimates of the Economic Costs of Occupational Licensing
Occupational licensing costs the U.S. economy more than it’s worth. This report provides data showing how licensing costs the economy...
Fencing Out Opportunity: The Effect of Licensing Regulations on Employment
Occupational licensing hurts rather than helps employment. This report analyzes ten licensed occupations across all 50 states, ranking...
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