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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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The Evaluation of Seattle’s Secure Scheduling Ordinance: Year 1 Findings
This report contains findings from the first year of implementation of Seattle’s Secure Scheduling Ordinance (SSO) that went into effect…
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What’s to like? Facebook as a tool for survey data collection
In this article, we explore the use of Facebook targeted advertisements for the collection of survey data. We illustrate the…
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It’s About Time: How Work Schedule Instability Matters for Workers, Families, and Racial Inequality
Many Americans are working, but poor. Along with low wages and few benefits, the working poor frequently find themselves up…
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Consequences of Routine Work-Schedule Instability for Worker Health and Well-Being
Research on precarious work and its consequences overwhelmingly focuses on the economic dimension of precarity, epitomized by low wages. But…
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