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Losing Sleep over Work Scheduling?: The Relationship between Work Schedules and Sleep Quality for Service Sector Workers
Work schedules in the service sector are often unstable and unpredictable. Chronic uncertainty about the timing of work shifts impedes…
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Who Cares if Parents have Unpredictable Work Schedules?: Just-in-Time Work Schedules and Child Care Arrangements
Working parents must arrange some type of care for their young children when they are away at work. For parents…
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Unemployed Without a Net
In this brief, we address key questions about the Unemployment Insurance response to the economic crisis triggered by the pandemic.
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Hard Times: Routine Schedule Unpredictability and Material Hardship among Service Sector Workers
American policymakers have long focused on work as a key means to improve economic wellbeing. Yet, work has become increasingly…
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Essential Changes Needed for Essential Workers: Job Quality for California’s Service Sector
This report provides a detailed accounting of job conditions for workers in the service sector, drawing on data from The…
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What Explains Racial/Ethnic Inequality in Job Quality in the Service Sector?
Precarious work in the United States is defined by economic and temporal dimensions. A large literature documents the extent of…
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Essential and Unprotected: COVID-19-Related Health and Safety Procedures for Service-Sector Workers
In this research brief, we draw on Shift survey data that gives an early and nearly real-time view into employer…
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Essential and Vulnerable: Service-Sector Workers and Paid Sick Leave
Against the backdrop of a global health crisis, service-sector workers are newly visible. While millions of American workers have been…
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Paid sick leave in Washington state: Evidence on employee outcomes, 2016–2018
This article analyses if Washington State’s paid sick leave law increased access to paid sick leave, reduced employees’ working while…
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Estimates of Workers Who Lack Access to Paid Sick Leave at 91 Large Service Sector Employers
Using Shift survey data we share tabulations of the percent of hourly workers who report that they lack access to…
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Precarious Work Schedules And Population Health
Six US cities and one state have passed laws to regulate unstable and unpredictable work scheduling practices, and several firms…
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Working in the Service Sector in New Jersey
This research brief is part of a series designed to advance our understanding of working conditions in the service sector—in…
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