This paper explores whether the poor post-prisonemploylrient experiences of ex-offenders arise from general disadvantage as' lowskilled workers with little previous work experience, or from specific disadvantage from being ex-offenders. While it is difficult to mesh out the separate effects, a strong finding is that monthly post-prison employment experiences are most directly affected by outcom...

In this study we investigated the relation between job performance and voluntary employee turnover for 5,143 exempt employees in a single firm in the petroleum industry. As hypothesized, we found support for Jackofsky's (1984) curvilinear hypothesis as turnover was higher for low and high performers than it was for average performers. Three potential moderators of this curvilinearity were exami...