Does prison training improve labour outcomes of ex-drug offenders?
In a bid to reduce the overall recidivism rate, in-prison training programmes have been designed to improve employment outcomes of inmates. This paper aims to investigate the impact of in-prison training on employment outcomes of ex-drug offenders in Singapore. Using the Ordinary Least Squares (OLS)...
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| Format: | Final Year Project |
| Language: | English |
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2017
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10356/69735 |
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| Institution: | Nanyang Technological University |
| Language: | English |
| Summary: | In a bid to reduce the overall recidivism rate, in-prison training programmes have been designed to improve employment outcomes of inmates. This paper aims to investigate the impact of in-prison training on employment outcomes of ex-drug offenders in Singapore. Using the Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) method, we estimate the returns to in-prison training on two indicators of employment: average length of service and wage. We found that in-prison training has a large and significant effect only on the average length of service. This suggests that in-prison training programmes play a part in building up inmates’ mental resilience and equip them with realistic expectations of the job market, thus limiting expectation mismatch and job-hopping. |
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