On November 28, 2023, the Shift Project community came together for the last monthly meeting of the fall semester to hear Caleb Kwon present his research on the effects of fair workweek laws on worker schedules and store performance.
Caleb Kwon is a PhD Candidate in Operations Management at Harvard Business School.
Presentation: “The Effects of Fair Workweek Laws on Worker Schedules and Store Performance: Evidence from Chicago, Philadelphia, and Los Angeles”.
This project uses administrative data covering multiple retailers to study how Fair Workweek Laws (FWLs) in three cities affect the predictability (i.e., advance notice) and stability (i.e., week-to-week variations) of work schedules. The project also studies how FWLs affect store operations and performance to provide a comprehensive view of the efficacy and tradeoffs of FWLs.
