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Table 8 Percent of employees with a criminal record as a correlate of misconduct, Cox Proportional Hazard Model

From: Criminal background and job performance

 

(1)

(2)

(3)

All

Sales

Cust. Serv.

pre_crim

0.2762***

0.3254***

0.1768

− 3.44

− 3.1

− 1.53

school

− 0.142

− 0.135

− 0.1745

(− 1.14)

(− 0.77)

(− 1.08)

fewer_short_jobs

− 0.1649***

− 0.1321**

− 0.2311***

(− 3.40)

(− 2.37)

(− 2.79)

longest_job

− 0.0799***

− 0.0607

− 0.1233**

(−2.82)

(−1.60)

(−2.36)

sales

−1.5842*

  

(−1.86)

  

crimper

−9.9982***

−16.0613***

−6.4242**

(−2.92)

(−7.11)

(−2.14)

firm_id dummies

Yes

Yes

Yes

location dummies

Yes

Yes

Yes

Observations

10,699

5402

5297

Pseudo R-squared

0.036

0.021

0.049

  1. Sample contains only hired workers for whom information about criminal background is available. t-statistics in parentheses. Standard errors clustered by firm
  2. *p < 0.10, **p < 0.05, ***p < .01