Unstable Work Schedules and Racial Earnings Disparities Among U.S. Workers

Julie Y. Cai; Marybeth J. Mattingly

doi:10.7758/RSF.2025.11.1.10

Article Information

vol. 11 no. 1 201-223

DOI

https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2025.11.1.10

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RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences

Print ISSN

2377-8253

Online ISSN

2377-8261

History

Published online January 1, 2025.

© 2025 Russell Sage Foundation. Cai, Julie Y., and Marybeth J. Mattingly. 2025. “Unstable Work Schedules and Racial Earnings Disparities Among U.S. Workers.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 11(1): 201–23. https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2025.11.1.10. We thank the session participants of the 2023 Population Association of America annual meeting and all anonymous referees for their helpful comments on previous drafts. Cai thanks the Institute for New Economic Thinking for the support. The views expressed are those of the authors and do not reflect those of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, the Federal Reserve System, or its Board of Governors. Direct correspondence to: Julie Cai at cai@cepr.net, 1611 Connecticut Ave., NW 4th Floor, Washington, DC 20009; Marybeth Mattingly at beth.mattingly@bos.frb.org, 600 Atlantic Ave., Boston, MA 02210, United States. Open Access Policy: RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences is an open access journal. This article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

Author Information

Julie Y. Cai^a and
Marybeth J. Mattingly^b

^aEconomist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, United States
^bAssistant vice president for the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston’s Regional & Community Outreach Department, United States