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Table 3 Odds-ratios for social interaction in a desired job in a youth sample

From: Gregariousness, interactive jobs and wagesGeselligkeit, soziale Interaktion im Beruf und Löhne

 

(1) Pooled

(2) Males

Means (sd)

(3) Females

Means (sd)

Sex

2.057c

–

–

–

–

Openness to experience

1.029

1.042

−0.06 (0.99)

0.991

0.10 (0.99)

Conscientiousness

0.962

0.909

−0.11 (0.99)

1.024

0.14 (0.99)

Extraversion

2.034c

2.296c

−0.07 (0.99)

1.727c

0.13 (0.95)

Agreeableness

1.543c

1.447c

−0.15 (1.02)

1.719c

0.15 (0.97)

Neuroticism

0.993

0.962

−0.19 (0.94)

1.025

0.19 (1.03)

Locus of control

1.162b

1.194a

−0.01 (1.02)

1.115

−0.02 (0.98)

Willingness to take risk

1.009

0.982

6.19 (2.07)

1.016

5.84 (1.96)

Immigrant

0.977

0.605

0.18 (0.39)

1.775a

0.21 (0.41)

Cut 1

−3.832c

−5.178c

–

−4.496c

–

Cut 2

−0.338

−1.669c

–

−0.867

–

Cut 3

1.814c

0.421

–

1.453b

–

Log likelihood

−817.24

−445.82

–

−360.51

–

Pseudo R 2

0.100

0.091

–

0.087

–

N

808

426

–

382

–

  1. Source: Sample taken from SOEP 2007, Youth Questionnaires; Ordered Logit model. Variables included in the regression but not documented in the Table are: dummy for East-German origin, educational background of parents, dummy variable indicating that the individual lived with both parents until he/she was fifteen (the coefficients for these variables do not significantly differ from zero)
  2. a p<0.1, b p<0.05, c p<0.01