Shift participated in the PAA Annual Meeting held from April 10–13, 2025, in Washington, DC, where our researchers presented the following papers:
Tyler Woods, Daniel Schneider, Kristen Harknett
We find that state PSL laws increased workers’ PSL access and reduced the share of workers who worked while sick. We show that these benefits were not offset by any reductions in wages, benefits, or schedule stability.
“Parent and Child Well-being, Precarious Work, and the Safety Net”
Daniel Schneider, Margot Jackson, Yifei Huang
Preliminary results suggest that robust state-level cash and nutritional supports meaningfully buffers against the negative impact of work schedule instability on work-family conflict among single-parent families in precarious employment.
Meredith Slopen, Kess Ballentine, Kristen Harknett, Daniel Schneider
We find that 43% of hourly workers at large service sector firms report being under sanctioning point system at work. Points sanctions are negatively associated with a range of workplace and wellbeing outcomes, most strikingly with working while sick
“Predictably Unstable? Precarious Work and Precarious Relationships in the United States”
Kristen Harknett, Elizabeth Kuhlman
We find that shift workers who are subject to unstable and unpredictable work schedules are at higher risk for relationship dissolution.
