Publications by Sandra Susan Smith
The Limits of Ban-the-Box Legislation
March 14, 2022 • Policy Brief • By Christopher Herring and Sandra Susan Smith
Nationwide, 36 states and over 150 cities and counties have adopted what is widely known as “Ban the Box” (BtB) (NELP 2020). These policies require employers to remove conviction and…
Why Blue-Collar Blacks Help Less
February 1, 2013 • Working Papers • By Kara Young and Sandra Susan Smith
Abstract Why are blue-collar blacks less likely to help jobseekers than jobholders from other ethnoracial groups or even than more affluent blacks? Drawing from in-depth, semi-structured interviews with 97 black…
Why Weak Ties’ Help and Strong Ties’ Don’t: Reconsidering Why Tie Strength Matters
July 1, 2012 • Working Papers • By Sandra Susan Smith
Abstract If jobholders are more motivated to help jobseekers to whom they are strongly tied rather than those to whom they are weakly tied, why do jobholders so often help…
February 1, 2008 • Working Papers • By Sandra Susan Smith
Abstract I used the Multi-City Study of Urban Inequality to explore whether and to what extent reputation, measured as spotty work history, job-hopping, and previous incarceration, helps to explain why…