Appendix Table 4

Relationship between race-specific annual household hours worked and employment outcomes

Without state-specific trends
White Black Difference
Unemployment rate -1.105*** -2.712*** -1.608***
(0.179) (0.475) (0.525)
EPOP, ages 16+ 1.283*** 2.315*** 1.030***
(0.161) (0.291) (0.367)
Prime-age EPOP 1.022*** 2.151*** 1.125***
(0.164) (0.263) (0.313)
LFPR 1.372*** 2.111*** 0.735*
(0.151) (0.382) (0.423)
With state-specific trends
White Black Difference
Unemployment rate -1.150*** -2.181*** -1.033**
(0.102) (0.439) (0.458)
EPOP, ages 16+ 1.266*** 2.402*** 1.133***
(0.093) (0.300) (0.291)
Prime-age EPOP 1.036*** 1.934*** 0.896***
(0.114) (0.289) (0.284)
LFPR 1.282*** 2.410*** 1.125***
(0.106) (0.370) (0.355)

*p < 0.10; **p < 0.05; ***p < 0.01

Notes: Each coefficient is from a separate regression of the race-specific log of state-level average household annual hours worked, or the black–white log difference, on the overall labor market tightness outcome measured in percentage points (e.g., an unemployment rate of 6.0 is 6.0% percent). Regressions include state and year fixed effects and standard errors are clustered at the state level.

Source: Authors’ analysis of annual, state-level aggregations of Current Population Survey data, 1979–2016

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