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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 May 23.
Published in final edited form as: Demography. 2017 Apr;54(2):775–800. doi: 10.1007/s13524-017-0549-3

Table 4.

Cox proportional hazard models predicting time to first day of work, low-skilled, low-income, and jobs requiring no college degree

Low Skilled
Low Income
No college
Coef. exp(coef.) SE (coef.) Coef. exp(coef.) SE (coef.) Coef. exp(coef.) SE (coef.)
Job Accessibility
 Residential   0.235* 1.265 0.119   0.233* 1.262 0.118   0.202 1.224 0.122
 Daytime locations   0.225*** 1.252 0.066   0.174* 1.190 0.078   0.268*** 1.307 0.058
Age   0.017 1.017 0.019   0.002 1.002 0.021   0.010 1.010 0.019
Black   0.584 1.793 0.574   0.455 1.576 0.557   0.599 1.820 0.549
Education (ref. = less than high school)
 High school graduate/GED −0.014 0.986 0.331   0.041 1.042 0.341   0.002 1.002 0.330
 Some college   0.248 1.281 0.336   0.358 1.430 0.331   0.120 1.127 0.337
 College −1.575 0.207 1.310 −1.249 0.287 1.190 −1.443 0.236 1.317
Relationship Status (ref. = single)
 Married   0.287 1.332 0.516   0.328 1.388 0.509   0.260 1.297 0.510
 Partner −0.268 0.765 0.301 −0.347 0.707 0.303 −0.341 0.711 0.295
Total Children   0.036 1.037 0.086   0.046 1.047 0.087   0.045 1.046 0.088
Social Support Scale −0.236 0.790 0.126 −0.197 0.821 0.126 −0.252 0.777 0.130
Self-reported Health −0.002 0.998 0.117   0.003 1.003 0.122 −0.007 0.993 0.113
Mental Health Diagnosis −0.558 0.572 0.486 −0.772 0.462 0.518 −0.675 0.509 0.479
Living in a Shelter at Reentry −0.169 0.845 0.386 −0.221 0.802 0.396 −0.516 0.597 0.401
Length of Recent Incarceration −0.003 0.997 0.033   0.001 1.001 0.032   0.019 1.019 0.034
Pre-Incarceration Characteristics
 Any formal labor market job −0.573 0.564 0.320 −0.358 0.699 0.324 −0.365 0.694 0.294
 Age at first incarceration −0.029 0.971 0.023 −0.026 0.974 0.024 −0.030 0.970 0.023
 Number of convictions   0.117*** 1.124 0.029   0.088* 1.092 0.035   0.089* 1.093 0.036
 Number of incarcerations −0.460** 0.631 0.153 −0.299* 0.742 0.150 −0.418** 0.658 0.155
 Any felony conviction −0.105 0.900 0.343   0.069 1.071 0.349 −0.031 0.969 0.339
N 124 124 124

Note: The models consider N = 124 individuals and N = 3,394 person-days at risk and under observation prior to first day of work.

*

p < .05;

**

p < .01;

***

p < .001