Varying weekly work hours and earnings instability in the Great Recession.
Unstable work schedules are increasingly a prominent stratification outcome, particularly for low-wage workers. Nationally representative and longitudinal research on the topic is limited, however. This article examines varying numbers of weekly work hours among hourly workers, their increase during...
| Publicado en: | Social Science Research Vol. 74; pp. 96 - 108 |
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Academic Press Inc.
Aug2018
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