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Title: Schedule Instability and Unpredictability and Worker and Family Health and Wellbeing
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Publication Year: 2016
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Abstract: The American labor market is increasingly unequal, characterized by extraordinary returns to work at the top of the market but rising precarity and instability at the bottom of the market. In addition to low wages, short tenure, few benefits, and non-standard hours, many jobs in the retail and food service industries are characterized by a great deal of instability and unpredictability in work schedules. Such workplace practices may have detrimental effects on workers. However, the lack of existing suitable data has precluded empirical investigation of how such scheduling practices affect the health and wellbeing of workers and their families. We describe an innovative approach to survey data collection from targeted samples of service-sector workers that allows us to collect previously unavailable data on scheduling practices and on health and wellbeing. We then use these data to show that exposure to unstable and unpredictable schedules is negatively associated with household financial security, worker health, and parenting practices.
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Authors: Schneider, Daniel; Harknett, Kristen
Publisher: Washington Center for Equitable Growth
Data Collections: IPUMS USA, IPUMS CPS
Topics: Family and Marriage, Health, Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Poverty and Welfare
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