Consequences of Routine Work-Schedule Instability for Worker Health and Well-Being

Research on precarious work and its consequences overwhelmingly focuses on the economic dimension of precarity, epitomized by low wages. But the rise in precarious work also involves a major shift in its temporal dimension, such that many workers now experience routine instability in their work schedules. This temporal instability represents a fundamental and under-appreciated manifestation of the risk shift from firms to workers. A lack of suitable existing data, however, has precluded investigation of how precarious scheduling practices affect workers' health and well-being. We use an innovative approach to collect survey data from a large and strategically selected segment of the U.S. workforce: hourly…

• UD
  U.S. Department of Labor

  Award: EO-30277-17-60-5-6
• RW
  Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

  Award: 74528
• RS
  Russell Sage Foundation

  Award: 77-18-05
• HF
  Hellman Foundation
• WC
  Washington Center for Equitable Growth
• IF
  Institute for Research on Labor and Employment
• EK
  Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

  Award: R21HD091578