Criminal background and job performance

Table 11 Psychometric predictors in different jobs

	(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)
	Involuntary separation		Misconduct
	Cust. serv.	Sales	Cust. serv.	Sales
badservice	0.0804	0.1043***	0.3750	0.1368
confidence	0.2671**	0.4113***	0.4174*	0.6111***
rulebreaker1	−0.1445***	0.0405	−0.5956**	− 0.2786
open1	−0.1948***	− 0.0434	− 0.2687**	0.0364
open2	0.1609	−1.1571***	− 0.0995	14.7302
open3	−0.0069	0.0123	−0.0748	−0.0327
con1	−0.0191	0.0195	0.0318	0.1392*
con2	−0.0793	0.0078	−0.1947	0.2190*
con3	0.0038	−0.4028***	−0.0860	− 0.6501
extra1	0.0069	0.0991	−0.1024	−0.0701
extra2	−0.1113	0.0445	−0.0014	−0.0299
extra3	−0.1103	−0.0148	− 0.2488**	−0.0299
agree1	0.0357	0.0577**	−0.2636*	−0.0063
agree2	0.0032	0.0561	0.3266*	−0.0162
agree3	0.0386	−0.9510***	0.3783	14.9843***
neur1	−0.0147	0.0203	0.0396	0.0650
neur2	−0.0045	0.0134	0.0333	−0.0472
neur3	−0.2422***	−0.0388	− 0.2821*	−0.0660
Controls	school, job stability, crim. rec., firm, location
Source	Table 6	Table 6	Table 7	Table 7
Source	cols 11–12	cols 7–8	cols 11–12	cols 7–8

Sample contains only hired workers for whom information about criminal background is available. Standardized beta coefficients. t-statistics in parentheses. Robust standard errors
*p < 0.10, **p < 0.05, ***p < .01