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Disability Accommodation in Nonstandard and Precarious Employment Arrangements 9 Apr 2013 | 09:23 pm
This study, based on data from a large nationally representative sample of Canadian workers with disabilities, examines the relationship between employment arrangements and the accommodation of disabi...
Paid Sick Leave and Job Stability 9 Apr 2013 | 09:23 pm
A compelling, but unsubstantiated, argument for paid sick leave legislation is that workers with leave are better able to address own and family member health needs without risking a voluntary or invo...
The Impact of Job Insecurity and Job Degradation on the Sense of Personal Control 9 Apr 2013 | 09:23 pm
I examine the effect of job insecurity and job degradation on the sense of personal control. Analyses of two waves of panel observations from a national survey of American workers reveal that prolonge...
Time Work by Overworked Professionals: Strategies in Response to the Stress of Higher Status 9 Apr 2013 | 09:23 pm
How are professionals responding to the time strains brought on by the stress of their higher status jobs? Qualitative data from professionals reveal (a) general acceptance of the emerging temporal or...
Sexual Orientation and Occupational Attainment 15 Jan 2013 | 05:00 pm
Research shows that sexual minorities and heterosexuals differ in the level of success in educational and earnings attainment, but differences in occupational attainment have been unclear. To extend t...
From the Shop Floor to the Kitchen Floor: Maternal Occupational Complexity and Children's Reading and Math Skills 15 Jan 2013 | 05:00 pm
Using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics we explore the relationship between current and early maternal occupational complexity and preadolescent children’s academic achievement in mathemati...
Can We Restore Broadly Shared Prosperity? 25 Oct 2012 | 12:38 am
Good Jobs, Bad Jobs and other Russell Sage publications greatly strengthen our knowledge of both the causes of low-wage work and what is required to improve jobs and economic opportunities. These mult...
The Politics of Precarity: Views Beyond the United States 25 Oct 2012 | 12:38 am
Drawing on experiences in the global south and western Europe, this commentary identifies 3 focal points of precarity politics that a singular focus on the United States may have eclipsed: (a) In the ...
The Politics of Job Quality: A Case Study of Weatherization 25 Oct 2012 | 12:38 am
In Good Jobs, Bad Jobs Arne Kalleberg provides an extremely useful portrait of job quality in America. This paper addresses the politics of job quality via a case study of weatherization jobs. Weather...
Job Quality and Precarious Work: Clarifications, Controversies, and Challenges 25 Oct 2012 | 12:38 am
In this article, the author engages with the authors of the articles in this Special Issue by clarifying some aspects of the arguments in Good Jobs, Bad Jobs: The Rise of Polarized and Precarious Empl...
