Table 6.
Differences in predicted probabilities of being employed and at work and hours worked for the unincorporated self-employed (RE model) (sample restricted to states with state-wide emergency declarations after March 8)
| 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 (0.02) | − 0.06* (0.03) | − 0.08* (0.03) | 1.01 (0.73) | − 0.10 (1.01) | − 3.21* (1.40) |
| Marital status | ||||||
| Married-single | 0.01 (0.02) | 0.04 (0.03) | 0.02 (0.04) | − 0.09 (0.83) | 1.19 (1.18) | 0.58 (1.55) |
| Marital/gender status | ||||||
| Married women-married men | − 0.04* (0.02) | − 0.14** (0.03) | − 0.12** (0.04) | − 0.78 (0.88) | − 1.83 (1.23) | − 4.86** (1.62) |
| Single women-single men | 0.05 (0.03) | 0.08 (0.04) | − 0.01 (0.06) | 4.32** (1.30) | 3.22 (1.80) | − 0.12 (2.58) |
| Married men-single men | 0.05* (0.02) | 0.13** (0.04) | 0.07 (0.05) | 2.04 (1.10) | 3.50* (1.59) | 2.77 (2.09) |
| Married women-single women | − 0.04 (0.03) | − 0.08* (0.04) | − 0.04 (0.06) | − 3.06* (1.19) | − 1.55 (1.61) | − 1.97 (2.23) |
| Job characteristics | ||||||
| Remote job-not remote job | − 0.01 (0.02) | 0.09** (0.03) | 0.04 (0.04) | − 1.37 (0.87) | 2.06 (1.21) | 0.62 (1.65) |
| Essential-not essential industry | 0.02 (0.02) | 0.21** (0.03) | 0.15** (0.04) | 1.11 (0.96) | 11.13** (1.30) | 6.98** (1.74) |
Notes: N = 6479. 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