ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2021
Improving health and economic security by reducing work schedule uncertainty.
Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.
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- How much advance notice do workers need? A review and theoretical framework for determining advance notice periods for unpredictable work.Industrial health · 2024Review
- Can't Catch a Break: Intersectional Inequalities at Work.Sociological science · 2024Article
- Quantifying the Contribution of Work Characteristics to Educational Disparities in Health-Induced Work Limitations.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2023Article
- A cross-sectional analysis of work schedule notice and depressive symptoms in the United States.SSM - population health · 2023Article
- Associations between gut microbiota and sleep: a two-sample, bidirectional Mendelian randomization study.Frontiers in microbiology · 2023Article
- Older Workers With Unpredictable Schedules: Implications for Well-Being and Job Retention.The Gerontologist · 2022Article
- Working Time Control and Variability in Europe Revisited: Correlations with Health, Sleep, and Well-Being.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Influence of professional experience and work schedule on sleep quality.Revista brasileira de medicina do trabalho : publicacao oficial da Associacao Nacional de Medicina do Trabalho-ANAMTArticle
- Trying to Do What's Best: Maternal Perspectives About Toddler Sleep Health Among an Underresourced Sample of Mothers With Diverse Racial and Ethnic Identities.Journal of pediatric health care : official publication of National Association of Pediatric Nurse Associates & PractitionersArticle
- Early Childcare Precarity and Subsequent Maternal Health.Women's health issues : official publication of the Jacobs Institute of Women's HealthArticle
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Abstract
Work schedules in the service sector are routinely unstable and unpredictable, and this unpredictability may have harmful effects on health and economic insecurity. However, because schedule unpredictability often coincides with low wages and other dimensions of poor job quality, the causal effects of unpredictable work schedules are uncertain. Seattle's Secure Scheduling ordinance, enacted in 2017, mandated greater schedule predictability, providing an opportunity to examine the causal relationship between work scheduling and worker health and economic security. We draw on pre- and postintervention survey data from workers in Seattle and comparison cities to estimate the impacts of this law using a difference-in-differences approach. We find that the law had positive impacts on workers' schedule predictability and stability and led to increases in workers' subjective well-being, sleep quality, and economic security. Using the Seattle law as an instrumental variable, we also estimate causal effects of schedule predictability on well-being outcomes. We show that uncertainty about work time has a substantial effect on workers' well-being, particularly their sleep quality and economic security.
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