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Are Gangs an Alternative to Legitimate Employment? Investigating the Impact of Labor Market Effects on Gang Affiliation

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R. Alan Seals

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This paper adds to the literature estimates of local labor market effects on gang participation. I use data from the 1997 cohort of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY97) to model the probability of gang involvement. The effect of the local unemployment rate is statistically significant and positive, across a wide-range of model specifications. However, robustness checks reveal gang participation of individuals less than sixteen years-of-age (the legal minimum age for most jobs) is not responsive to the local unemployment rate. Gang participation among individuals with lower ASVAB scores is more sensitive to the local unemployment rate.

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Paper provided by Middle Tennessee State University, Department of Economics and Finance in its series Working Papers with number 200711.

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Date of creation: Aug 2007
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Keywords: gang participation NLSY intelligence unemployment

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J00 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - General - - - General
J19 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Other

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