Working in the Service Sector in Colorado
Service sector jobs in the United States are characterized by low pay, few fringe benefits, and limited employee control over scheduled workdays and times.
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Public Investments and Class Gaps in Parents' Developmental Expenditures
Families and governments are the primary sources of investment in children, providing access to basic resources and other developmental opportunities.
Maternal exposure to work schedule unpredictability and child behavior
Objective This article estimates the association between maternal exposure to unpredictable work schedules in the service sector and child internalizing and externalizing behavior. Background Precari
Who Cares if Parents have Unpredictable Work Schedules? Just-in-Time Work Schedules and Child Care Arrangements
Working parents must arrange some type of care for their young children when they are away at work.
What's to Like? Facebook as a Tool for Survey Data Collection.
In this article, we explore the use of Facebook targeted advertisements for the collection of survey data.
Getting Real about Unknowns in Complex Policy Work
As with all public policy work, education policies are demanding.
Gender, Selection into Employment, and the Wage Impact of Immigration
Immigrant supply shocks are typically expected to reduce the wage of comparable workers.
Still Unstable: The Persistence of Schedule Uncertainty During the Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic brought public awareness to the vital role that front-line service sector workers play in our economy and daily lives.
Reducing Barriers to Engaged Fatherhood: Three Principles for Promoting Gender Equity in Parenting
The purpose of this concluding chapter is to offer scholars, policy makers, and organizational leaders a preliminary framework for diagnosing barriers to engaged fatherhood and for generating policies
The Spread and Consequences of COVID-19 for Cities: An Introduction
Disease is an old companion to urban life. The golden age of Periclean Athens was arguably ended by the plague that struck that polis in 430 B.C.E.; the Bubonic plague hit Constantinople in 541 C.E.
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