Publications

Briefs

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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Seattle

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

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Philadelphia

Working in the service sector in Philadelphia

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Income Volatility in the Service Sector: Countours, Causes, and, Consequences

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Working Papers
Published Papers

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

What Explains Race/Ethnic Inequality in Job Quality in the Service Sector?
By Adam Storer, Daniel Schneider, and Kristen Harknett

Who Cares if Parents have Unpredictable Work Schedules?: The Association between Just-in-Time Work Schedules and Child Care Arrangements
By Daniel Schneider, Kristen Harknett, and Sigrid Luhr

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

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

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.