We examine income-generating strategies of “getting by” in a sample of young adults who have an offending record. First, we examine if human capital, conventional social capital, and criminal social capital are associated with decisions to supplement legal income with income from informal or illegal activities. Second, we explore which of those factors differentiate supplementing with informal activities from supplementing with illicit activities. Random effects linear probability models are used to analyze a subsample of the Pathways to Desistance Study, a longitudinal data set of adolescents who have begun the transition to adulthood. We find that, among individuals in low-wage jobs, neither conventional social capital nor conventional human capital was related to supplementing legal work with informal work. Criminal social capital and low legal wages in the prior year increased the probability of supplementing legal work with illicit income-generating activities. The current study corroborates previous findings that many individuals are engaged in various income-generating activities. Different mechanisms are associated with decisions to supplement licit work with informal work as opposed to supplementing licit work with income-generating crime.

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获得通过：低工资和收入补充

我们在有犯罪记录的年轻人样本中研究了“过得去”的创收策略。首先，我们检查人力资本、传统社会资本和犯罪社会资本是否与用非正规或非法活动收入补充合法收入的决定相关。其次，我们探讨了哪些因素可以区分补充非正式活动和补充非法活动。随机效应线性概率模型用于分析途径终止研究的子样本，这是一个已经开始向成年过渡的青少年的纵向数据集。我们发现，在从事低薪工作的个人中，传统的社会资本和传统的人力资本都与以非正规工作补充合法工作有关。上一年的犯罪社会资本和低法定工资增加了以非法创收活动补充合法工作的可能性。目前的研究证实了之前的研究结果，即许多人从事各种创收活动。不同的机制与以非正规工作来补充合法工作而不是用创收犯罪来补充合法工作的决定相关联。