Publications
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COVID-19 Employment Shocks and Safety Net Expansion: Health Effects on Displaced Workers
COVID-19 precipitated sharp job losses, concentrated in the service sector. Prior research suggests that such shocks would negatively affect health…
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Between-firm sorting and parenthood wage gaps in the US service sector
We assess how the distribution of parents across firms contributes to parenthood wage gaps in a low-wage US labor market…
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Early Effects of California’s $20 Fast Food Minimum Wage: Large Wage Increases with No Effects on Hours, Scheduling, or Benefits
By comparing California fast food workers with their counterparts in retail jobs or employed at the same firms outside of…
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Please Wait, Help is on the Way: Self-Checkout, Understaffing, and Customer Incivility in the Service Sector
So called “self-checkout” machines have become one of the most ubiquitous, and one of the most fraught, forms of new…
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Labor market pathways to job quality mobility in the service sector: Evidence from the “Great Resignation”
We draw on new panel data collected from 8600 hourly service sector workers between 2017 and 2022 to estimate short-run…
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Compliance and the Complaint Gap: Labor Standards Violations in the California Service Sector
This report aims to illuminate the state of compliance with California’s core labor standards and the opportunities and barriers to…
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Parental Exposure to Work Schedule Instability and Child Sleep Quality
This study investigates the relationship between parental exposure to unstable and unpredictable work schedules and child sleep quality.
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Can’t Catch a Break: Intersectional Inequalities at Work
The labor market is the site of longstanding and persistent inequalities across race and gender groups in hiring, compensation, and…
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IKEA Self-Scheduling Intervention: Baseline Report
In this report, we document the scheduling conditions for IKEA co-workers before the launch of the intervention, and describe the…
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Most Hourly Workers at Large Service Sector Firms Still Lack Paid Sick Leave
Paid sick leave is essential for worker well-being and the public health, yet the United States does not have a…
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The Politics of Prevention: Polarization in How Workplace COVID-19 Safety Practices Shaped the Well-Being of Frontline Service Sector Workers
The COVID-19 pandemic dramatically reshaped the labor market, especially for service sector workers. Frontline service sector workers, already coping with…
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Racial/Ethnic and Gender Inequities in the Sufficiency of Paid Leave During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence from the Service Sector
Access to paid family and medical leave (PFML), including leave to care for a seriously ill loved one or recover…