Publications

Briefs

Early Career Workers in the Service Sector

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Half of Service Sector Workers Are Not Yet Vaccinated for COVID-19: What Gets in the Way?

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Paid Family and Medical Leave in the U.S. Service Sector

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Seattle’s Secure Scheduling Ordinance: Year 2 Worker Impact Report

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Paid Sick Leave in Virginia: Evidence from the Shift Project

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COVID-19 Safety Measures Update

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Unemployed Without a Net

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Essential Changes Needed for Essential Workers: Job Quality for California’s Service Sector

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Essential and Unprotected: COVID-19-Related Health and Safety Procedures for Service-Sector Workers

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Essential and Vulnerable: Service-Sector Workers and Paid Sick Leave

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Estimates of Workers Who Lack Access to Paid Sick Leave at 91 Large Service Sector Employers

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Precarious Work Schedules And Population Health

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Working in the Service Sector in New Jersey

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Seattle

The Evaluation of Seattle’s Secure Scheduling Ordinance: Year 1 Findings

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It’s About Time: How Work Schedule Instability Matters for Workers, Families, and Racial Inequality

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Consequences of Routine Work Schedule Instability for Worker Health and Wellbeing

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Working in the Service Sector in Boston

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Washington

Working in the Service Sector in Washington State

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Connecticut

Working in the service sector in Connecticut

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The Evaluation of Seattle’s Secure Scheduling Ordinance: Baseline Report

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Working Papers
Published Papers

Parental Exposure to Routine Work Schedule Uncertainty and Child Behavior
By Daniel Schneider and Kristen Harknett

Uncertain Time: Precarious Schedules and Job Turnover in the U.S. Service Sector
By Daniel Schneider and Kristen Harknett

Schedule instability and unpredictability and worker and family health and wellbeing
By Daniel Schneider and Kristen Harknett, Washington Center for Equitable Growth

Kristen Harknett, Daniel Schneider, and Rebecca Wolfe. “Losing Sleep over Work Scheduling?: The Relationship between Work Schedules and Sleep Quality for Service Sector Workers.,” SSM-Population Health (October 2020): 100681.

Kristen Harknett, Daniel Schneider, and Sigrid Luhr. “Who Cares if Parents have Unpredictable Work Schedules?: Just-in-Time Work Schedules and Child Care Arrangements,” Social Problems (September 2020).

Adam Storer, Daniel Schneider, and Kristen Harknett. “What Explains Racial/Ethnic Inequality in Job Quality in the Service Sector?,” American Sociological Review 85, no. 4 (August 2020): 537–72.

Daniel Schneider and Kristen Harknett. “Hard Times: Routine Schedule Unpredictability and Material Hardship among Service Sector Workers,” Social Forces (August 2020).

Daniel Schneider. “Paid sick leave in Washington state: Evidence on employee outcomes, 2016–2018,” American Journal of Public Health 110, no. 4 (March 2020): 499-504.

Daniel Schneider and Kristen Harknett. “What’s to like? Facebook as a tool for survey data collection,” Sociological Methods & Research (November 2019): 0049124119882477.

Daniel Schneider and Kristen Harknett. “Consequences of Routine Work-Schedule Instability for Worker Health and Well-Being,” American Sociological Review 84(1) (February 2019): 82–114.

Daniel Schneider, Kristen Harknett, and Matthew Stimpson. “Job Quality and the Educational Gradient in Entry Into Marriage and Cohabitation,” Demography 56(2) (January 2019): 451–476.

Dani Carrillo, Kristen Harknett, Allison Logan, Sigrid Luhr, and Daniel Schneider. “Instability of Work and Care: How Work Schedules Shape Child-Care Arrangements for Parents Working in the Service Sector,” Social Service Review 91, no. 3 (September 2017): 422-455.