Updating Measures of Work Schedules in Federal Surveys

Lambert, Susan J.; Fugiel, Peter J.

doi:10.31235/osf.io/j3dk5

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“…Scheduling practices vary substantially by worker education and occupational status (Kossek and Lautsch 2018;Mas and Pallais 2020). We focus on unstable schedules, labeled as just-in-time scheduling (Lambert 2008) or precarious schedules (Lambert, Fugiel, and Henly 2014;Schneider and Harknett 2019), which are of interest for the mobility of lower-wage workers.…”

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How Do Employer Practices Affect Economic Mobility?

Kelly,

Rahmandad,

Wilmers

et al. 2023

ILR Review

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How can employers facilitate economic mobility for workers, particularly workers of color or those without a college degree? The authors integrate a fragmented literature to assess how employers’ practices affect enhanced economic security and mobility. This article first identifies three pathways linking employers’ practices to mobility: improving material job quality, increasing access to better jobs for historically marginalized workers, and promoting sustainability of employment. The authors provide a critical assessment of the research literature on recruitment and hiring practices; pay and wages; promotion practices; scheduling; leaves; diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives; and work systems as these practices relate to economic mobility. They then identify strategic questions and feasible designs for enhancing future research on these questions in order to guide policy and management practice.

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Section: Schedulingmentioning

confidence: 99%

How Do Employer Practices Affect Economic Mobility?

Kelly,

Rahmandad,

Wilmers

et al. 2023

ILR Review

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“…Unpredictability refers to an inability to anticipate one's schedule, including having limited advance notice or experiencing last‐minute changes. Lack of control refers to workers having limited input into when and how much they work (Lambert et al, 2014).…”

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Associations between parental precarious work schedules and child behavior problems among low‐income families

Walther

Pilarz

2023

J of Marriage and Family

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ObjectiveThis study examined associations between parental precarious work schedules and child behavior problems among a sample of families with low incomes receiving child‐care subsidies and tested three hypothesized mediators of these associations: work–family conflict, economic insecurity, and child‐care instability.BackgroundAs “just‐in‐time,” or on‐call, scheduling practices become more prevalent among low‐paid workers, working parents must balance family demands with precarious work schedules characterized by instability, unpredictability, and lack of control. Precarious work schedules may threaten child well‐being by increasing parents' work–family conflict and stress, economic insecurity, and child‐care instability. Yet, few studies have been able to empirically test these relationships.MethodThis study uses data from a survey of child‐care subsidy recipients to test the associations between five dimensions of parental precarious work schedules—variable work hours and shifts, limited advance notice, unexpected schedule changes, and lack of schedule control—and child externalizing behavior problems via work–care conflict, economic insecurity, and child‐care instability. Analyses use Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) regression and decomposition methods and control for a host of child, parental, and household characteristics.ResultsVariable shifts were indirectly associated with more parent‐reported child behavior problems via work–care conflict, whereas unexpected schedule changes were indirectly associated with more behavior problems via both work–care conflict and material hardship.ConclusionThese findings add to a growing evidence‐base on the incongruence between precarious employer‐driven scheduling practices and the needs of families with young children.

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Updating Measures of Work Schedules in Federal Surveys

Cited by 2 publications

References 27 publications

How Do Employer Practices Affect Economic Mobility?

How Do Employer Practices Affect Economic Mobility?

Associations between parental precarious work schedules and child behavior problems among low‐income families

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