abstract: 'A varying number of work hours from week to week creates considerable

  hardships for workers and their families, like volatile earnings and

  work-family conflict. Yet little empirical work has focused on

  racial/ethnic differences in varying work hours, which may have

  increased substantially in the Great Recession of the late 2000s. We

  extend literatures on racial/ethnic stratification in recessions and

  occupational segregation to this topic. Analyses of the Survey of Income

  and Program Participation show varying weekly hours became significantly

  more common for White and Black, but especially Latino workers in the

  late 2000s. The growth of varying weekly hours among White and Latino

  workers was greatest in predominantly minority occupations. However, the

  growth among Black workers was greatest in predominantly White

  occupations. The chapter discusses implications for disparities in

  varying hours and the salience of occupational composition beyond

  earnings.'
affiliation: 'Finnigan, R (Corresponding Author), Univ Calif Davis, Davis, CA 95616
  USA.

  Finnigan, Ryan; Hunter, Savannah, Univ Calif Davis, Davis, CA 95616 USA.'
author: Finnigan, Ryan and Hunter, Savannah
author_list:
- family: Finnigan
  given: Ryan
- family: Hunter
  given: Savannah
booktitle: RACE, IDENTITY AND WORK
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1108/S0277-283320180000032011
editor: Mickey, EL and Wingfield, AH
files: []
isbn: 978-1-78769-501-6; 978-1-78769-502-3
issn: 0277-2833
keywords: 'Work hours and schedules; the Great Recession; occupational

  racial/ethnic composition; group threat hypothesis; minority power

  hypothesis'
keywords-plus: 'LABOR-MARKET; ORGANIZATIONAL DEMOGRAPHY; GENDER-DIFFERENCES; RACE;

  DISCRIMINATION; EMPLOYMENT; SCHEDULES; WAGE; JOBS; SEX'
language: English
number-of-cited-references: '61'
pages: 165-193
papis_id: f885a79cb3783693f14dad4625eccea2
ref: Finnigan2019occupationalcomposit
series: Research in the Sociology of Work
times-cited: '2'
title: OCCUPATIONAL COMPOSITION AND RACIAL/ETHNIC INEQUALITY IN VARYING WORK HOURS
  IN THE GREAT RECESSION
type: article
unique-id: WOS:000837239800008
usage-count-last-180-days: '1'
usage-count-since-2013: '2'
volume: '32'
web-of-science-categories: Ethnic Studies; Industrial Relations \& Labor; Sociology
year: '2019'