On October 31, 2023, the Shift Project community gathered to hear from Tyler Woods, a PhD candidate in Sociology at Harvard, and Clem Aeppli, a fifth-year doctoral student in Sociology at Harvard. They presented their research and discussed the papers they will be presenting at APPAM in November.
Tyler’s presentation
Draft title: Labor Market Pathways to Job Upgrading in the Service Sector: Evidence from the Great Resignation.
Authors: Tyler Woods, Dylan Nguyen, Danny Schneider.
Summary: Drawing on panel data from the Shift Project, this paper investigates the extent to which workers in “bad jobs” in the service sector are able to upgrade to higher quality jobs. It leverages data from before and during the Great Resignation to test how job upgrading is shaped by local and national labor market contexts, as well as how this relationship varies by workers’ job turnover.
Clem’s presentation
Draft title: Schedule Stability and Employee Retention at IKEA.
Authors: Clem Aeppli, Jeremy Mopsick, Kristen Harknett.
Summary: The paper harnesses personnel records from IKEA to examine the relationship between work-schedule stability and employee retention. Workers whose start times are more consistent, whose day-to-day and week-to-week hours are more stable, and whose usual hours are closer to full-time are substantially more likely to remain employed.
