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. 2021 Aug 13;58(2):741–768. doi: 10.1007/s11187-021-00522-4

Table 2.

Differences between groups and across months in predicted probabilities of being employed and at work and hours worked for the unincorporated self-employed (RE models)

Differences between groups Employed and at work Hours worked
March–Feb April–Feb May–Feb March–Feb April–Feb May–Feb
Gender
  Female-male  − 0.01 (0.01)  − 0.07** (0.02)  − 0.10** (0.03) 0.81 (0.65)  − 0.17 (0.92)  − 3.52** (1.26)
Marital status
  Married-single 0.02 (0.02) 0.04 (0.03) 0.03 (0.03) 0.60 (0.74) 1.10 (1.06) 0.79 (1.40)
Marital/gender status
  Married women-married men  − 0.04* (0.02)  − 0.14** (0.03)  − 0.13** (0.04)  − 0.97 (0.78)  − 1.65 (1.10)  − 4.75** (1.46)
  Single women-single men 0.03 (0.02) 0.06 (0.04)  − 0.04 (0.05) 4.03** (1.16) 2.90 (1.65)  − 1.17 (2.28)
  Married men-single men 0.05* (0.02) 0.13** (0.03) 0.07 (0.04) 2.67** (0.97) 3.26* (1.45) 2.58 (1.92)
  Married women-single women  − 0.02 (0.02)  − 0.07 (0.04)  − 0.02 (0.05)  − 2.33* (1.07)  − 1.29 (1.45)  − 1.01 (1.95)

Notes: N = 7988. All workers were employed and at work in February. Standard errors in parentheses are clustered by household. See Table 1 for control variables; * p < 0.05, ** p < 0.01

Source: Authors’ calculations based on the Current Population Survey, February–May 2020