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Title: Work Scheduling for American Mothers, 1990 and 2012

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Publication Year: 2019

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Abstract: American working conditions have deteriorated over the last 30 years. One commonly-noted change is the rise of nonstandard and unstable work schedules. Such schedules, especially when held by mothers, negatively affect family functioning and the well-being and development of children and bear implications for the intergenerational transmission of disadvantage. This paper describes and compares the working schedules—in terms of type, duration, and variability—of American mothers in 1990 and 2012 in an attempt to assess whether nonstandard and unstable schedules are growing more common. Analyses demonstrate that evening work has increased in prevalence for single mothers but not for their partnered peers. Mothers in both single-mother and two-partner households experienced considerably greater within-week schedule variability and higher likelihood of weekend work in 2012 than they did in 1990. These changes resulted from widespread shifts in the nature of work, especially affecting less-educated mothers.

Url: https://pshepburn.github.io/hepburn_1_20190501.pdf

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Authors: Hepburn, Peter

Publisher: Princeton University

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Family and Marriage, Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Work, Family, and Time

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