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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Gend Soc. 2013 Sep 26;28(3):404–434. doi: 10.1177/0891243213504032

Table 3.

Models of hours worked per week among working women

OLS of hours worked
Multinomial reg. (ref=not working)
By Marital Status
All
(1)
Single
(2)
Married
(3)
<20 hours
(4)
20-34 hours
(5)
35+ hours
(6)
National Origin
 Mexican −1.04 (1.04) 1.54 (1.70) −1.93 (1.29) 0.36 (0.35) −0.33 (0.26) −0.33 * (0.19)
Human capital
 Age 0.25 (0.46) −0.36 (0.71) 0.14 (0.61) 0.17 (0.13) 0.35 ** (0.11) 0.21 ** (0.08)
  Age sq 0.00 (0.01) 0.00 (0.01) 0.00 (0.01) 0.00 (0.00) 0.00 ** (0.00) 0.00 ** (0.00)
 Education (ref = 10 years or more)
  6 years or less −0.32 (1.11) −3.16 * (1.87) 0.56 (1.35) 0.21 (0.34) −0.24 (0.27) −0.24 (0.20)
  7-9 years 0.15 (1.24) −1.94 (2.02) 0.44 (1.53) −0.19 (0.39) −0.45 (0.31) −0.22 (0.21)
 Worked at origin −1.98 ** (0.93) −1.59 (1.50) −2.02 * (1.14) 0.38 (0.28) −0.26 (0.23) 0.00 (0.16)
Immigration Characteristics
 Time in Durham 0.14 (0.14) 0.34 (0.23) 0.08 (0.17) −0.04 (0.05) 0.00 (0.04) 0.05 ** (0.02)
 Good English −0.48 (1.79) −3.18 (2.48) −0.44 (2.39) 0.66 (0.69) 0.38 (0.50) 0.68 * (0.36)
 Undocumented −1.93 (1.58) −0.15 (2.27) −3.40 * (2.06) 0.97 (0.78) −0.14 (0.41) −0.24 (0.30)
Family and household structure
 Married −2.91 ** (1.04) - - - - −0.24 (0.44) −1.16 ** (0.30) −1.37 ** (0.23)
 Co-resident children −1.90 * (1.06) 1.69 (1.70) −2.73 ** (1.34) −0.18 (0.34) −0.80 ** (0.27) −0.64 ** (0.20)
 Non-resident child 0.14 (1.13) 3.97 ** (1.77) −1.38 (1.40) 0.32 (0.35) 0.09 (0.29) 0.51 ** (0.21)
Employment characteristics
 Occupation (ref = food preparation)
  Childcare 4.31 ** (2.05) −5.66 (4.37) 6.83 ** (2.36)
  Cleaning 0.91 (1.10) −1.60 (1.73) 1.69 (1.38)
  Laundry 2.88 (2.09) 1.64 (4.28) 3.35 (2.40)
  Factory 4.85 ** (1.62) 0.32 (2.60) 6.05 ** (1.98)
  Non-niche 1.52 (1.64) 3.85 (2.51) 0.35 (2.07)
 Labor market position
  Subcontractor 0.42 (1.31) −1.53 (2.04) 1.14 (1.65)
  Hispanic worksite 0.01 (1.00) 1.40 (1.56) −0.29 (1.25)
  Small firm −3.54** (1.02) −2.08 (1.64) −4.54 ** (1.26)
Intercept 38.23 ** (7.43) 44.18 ** (11.72) 39.53 ** (9.89) −5.93 ** (2.26) −5.28 ** (1.82) −2.06 * (1.24)
R/Chi-squared 0.09 0.16 0.12 147.55
N 542 145 397 910
**

p<0.05

*

p<0.10