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  • Direct Experience with Poor Working Conditions and Partisan Labor Policy Preferences

    December 1, 2025
    Gregory Lyon, Daniel Schneider

    Read the Full Article Do Republicans and Democrats who hold jobs with poor working conditions have similar views on pro-union…

  • Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance for Workers in the Hourly Service Sector

    November 7, 2025
    Gabriella Aboulafia, Daniel Schneider

    Read the Full Article In defending the Medicaid cuts in HR 1, policymakers have argued that Medicaid coverage losses would…

  • Beyond borders: Does firm-level exposure to state and local paid sick leave mandates lead to intra-firm spillovers?

    October 24, 2025
    Daniel Schneider, Kristen Harknett

    Read the Full Article States and localities have passed labor standards to raise the floor on job quality, including mandating…

  • Amazon Drives Low Wages: The Unraveling of Workplace Protections for Delivery Drivers

    October 7, 2025
    Daniel Schneider, David Weil, Julie Su, Kevin Bruey

    Read the Full Article Amazon has revolutionized shopping and challenged traditional brick-and-mortar retail. But at the heart of this logistics…

  • Don’t Save the Demographics for Last: No Breakoff Penalty for Placing Demographic Items Early in Web-Based Surveys

    September 3, 2025
    Dylan Nguyen, Daniel Schneider, Kristen Harknett, Connor Williams

    Read the Full Article Conventional survey methodology wisdom holds that demographic questions should be asked at the end of surveys…

  • IKEA Self-Scheduling Intervention: Implementation and Impact Report

    September 2, 2025
    Kristen Harknett, Daniel Schneider, Clem Aeppli, Jeremy Mopsick

    Read the Full Report The IKEA-Shift Project research collaboration began in late 2019, just before the global coronavirus pandemic. The…

  • (Un)Supportive Workplaces: Experiences of Workplace Climate for Formerly Systems-Involved Young Workers

    August 28, 2025
    Kristen Harknett, Daniel Schneider, Rebecca Wolfe, Paige Logan Prater

    Read the Full Report By early adulthood, millions of young people have had early life experiences interacting with the juvenile…

  • Regulating Algorithmic Management: A Multi-Stakeholder Study of Challenges in Aligning Software and the Law for Workplace Scheduling

    July 21, 2025
    Daniel Schneider

    Read the Full Article Algorithmic management (AM)’s impact on worker well-being has led to calls for regulation. However, little is…

  • New Technology, Older Workers: How Workplace Technology is Associated with Indicators of Job Retention

    June 27, 2025
    Leah Abrams, Daniel Schneider, Kristen Harknett

    Read the Full Article Middle-aged and older adults who are employed in precarious, high-strain jobs may face challenges to continued…

  • Estimating the Impact of State Paid Sick Leave Laws on Worker Outcomes in the U.S. Service Sector, 2017–2023

    June 24, 2025
    Tyler Woods, Daniel Schneider, Kristen Harknett

    Read the Full Article In the absence of a federal paid sick leave (PSL) standard, numerous U.S. states have passed…

  • Heat Exposure in Indoor Service Sector Workplaces

    June 10, 2025
    Hana Shepherd, Kristen Harknett, Henri Jackson

    Read the Full Report A new report from the Shift Project highlights the growing problem of indoor heat exposure among…

  • Temporal Autonomy: Schedule Instability as a Threat to Perceived Dignity in the U.S. Service Sector

    May 29, 2025
    Tyler Woods

    Read the Full Article The dignity of workers has long been a central concern of social scientists, with existing research…

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Briefs

Benchmarks for Evaluating Compliance with Protected Time Off Laws

Mike Papadopoulos and Daniel Schneider

What Do Workers Want and Need: Partisan Consensus on What it Takes to Make Ends Meet

Daniel Schneider, David Weil and Kristen Harknett

How Well is Fair Workweek Working? A Review of Existing Research

Daniel Schneider, Kevin Bruey and Kristen Harknett

Unpredictable and Unstable: Fast Food Jobs in Los Angeles

Kevin Bruey, Alessandra Soto, Daniel Schneider and Kristen Harknett

Amazon Drives Low Wages: The Unraveling of Workplace Protections for Delivery Drivers

Daniel Schneider, David Weil, Julie Su and Kevin Bruey
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Articles

Predictably Unstable?: Precarious Work and Precarious Relationships in the U.S.

Kristen Harknett, Kevin Bruey and Elizabeth Kuhlman

The Double Bind of Precarious Work: Creating Need and Undermining Support

Tyler Woods, Kristen Harknett and Daniel Schneider

Fair Workweek Laws in the U.S.: An Appraisal of Intended and Unintended Consequences

Daniel Schneider, Kristen Harknett and David Arbelaez

The prevalence and consequences of punitive time and attendance policies in the food and retail industries

Kess Ballentine, Meredith Slopen, Daniel Schneider and Kristen Harknett

Points-Based Attendance Systems Associated With Presenteeism Despite Paid Sick Leave Protections

Meredith Slopen, Kess Ballentine, Kristen Harknett and Daniel Schneider
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