Table 3.
Employment Outcomes During 18-month Period
| Employment Outcomes | TW (n=141) |
No TW (n=129) |
p | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | % | n | % | ||
| 31 | 22.0 | 32 | 24.8 | 0.584 | |
| Obtained a competitive job within 6 months | 28 | 19.9 | 58 | 45.0 | <.0001 |
| Obtained a competitive job within 12 months | 59 | 41.8 | 68 | 52.7 | 0.074 |
| Obtained a competitive job within 18 months | 76 | 53.9 | 78 | 60.5 | 0.276 |
| Held full-time (≥30 hrs/wk) competitive job | 68 | 48.2 | 60 | 46.5 | 0.780 |
| Hollingshead Job Classification 1, 2, 3 | 14 | 18.4 | 15 | 19.0 | 0.653 |
| Hollingshead Job Classification 4, 5 | 36 | 47.4 | 41 | 51.9 | 0.256 |
| Hollingshead Job Classification 6 | 102 | 54.8 | 57 | 36.8 | 0.410 |
| Hollingshead Job Classification 7 | 53 | 28.5 | 48 | 31.0 | 0.510 |
| Mean | SD | Mean | SD | p | |
| Income from competitive jobs, ($) | 9,559 | 14,590 | 12,553 | 19,410 | 0.097 |
| Income from all sources including TW, ($) | 15,670 | 15,506 | 13,153 | 19,418 | 0.338 |
| Weeks competitively employed | 10.7 | 13.7 | 13.7 | 17.1 | 0.095 |
| Days competitively employed | 75.2 | 95.8 | 95.6 | 119.6 | 0.095 |
| Full-time (≥30 hrs/wk) competitive job, (weeks) | 9.3 | 13.1 | 10.8 | 15.7 | 0.29 |
| Competitive jobs, (no./person employed) | 40.6 | 22.8 | 32.5 | 21.6 | 0.172 |
| Time to 1st competitive job, (weeks) | 35.4 | 18.6 | 21.2 | 18.8 | <.0001 |
| Weeks unemployed prior to enrollment* | 179 | 220.0 | 118 | 206.9 | 0.019 |
weeks unemployed prior to enrollment, Median = 108 (IQR = 234) for TW vs 56 (IQR = 111) for No TW.
TW = Transitional Work
Hollingshead Job Classification 1=higher executive, major professional, owner of larger business; 2=managers of medium-sized businesses, lesser professions, i.e. nurses, opticians, pharmacists, social workers, teachers; 3=administrative personnel, manager, minor professional, owner or proprietor of small business; 4 =clerical, sales, technicians, small businesses, bank teller, bookkeeper, clerk, timekeeper, secretary; 5=skilled labor, i.e. baker, barber, chef, electrician, fireman, machinist, mechanic, painter, repairman, tailor, welder, police, plumber; 6=semi-skilled, i.e. hospital aide, bartender, bus driver, cutter, cook, garage guard, checker, waiter, spot welder, machine operator; 7=unskilled, i.e. attendant, janitor, construction helper, labor, porter.