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Author: Wang, Julia Shu-Huah
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1. Han, Wen-Jui
Wang, Julia Shu-Huah
Changing Employment and Work Schedule Patterns over the 30 Working Years--A Sequential Cluster Analysis
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health published online (21 October 2022): DOI: 10.3390/ijerph192013677.
Also: https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/19/20/13677
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: MDPI (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute)
Keyword(s): Poverty; Work Hours/Schedule

Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher.

Objective. As labor markets have become increasingly volatile and precarious since 1980s, more workers are susceptible to working conditions such as unpredictable and unstable hours, threatening their economic security. However, our understanding of employment patterns regarding the changes in work schedules over our working lives has yet been established. This study builds our knowledge in this area by paying attention to how social positions may shape the specific work schedule patterns over our working lives.

Methods. We used the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth-1979 (NLSY79) to examine our research questions. NLSY79 follows a nationally representative sample of United States men and women between the ages of 14 and 22 when first interviewed in 1979. The participants were then interviewed annually until 1994 and then biennially thereafter. We first conducted a sequence analysis to examine work schedule patterns between ages 22 and 53 (n = 7987). We then used a multinomial logit regression to examine the factors contributing to specific work schedule patterns, with attention to social position.

Results. Our sequence analysis results suggest five work schedule patterns during 31 years of adult life: working only standard hours (25%), mainly standard hours with some portions of nonstandard hours (38%), standard hours during early working years but transitioning to either largely variable or mainly evening or night hours (14% and 13%), and mostly not working (10%). Our multinomial logit analysis indicates that being non-Hispanic Black, having a high school degree or below, or having ever experienced poverty or welfare by age 23 were more likely to have a nonstandard work schedule pattern than their counterparts.

Bibliography Citation
Han, Wen-Jui and Julia Shu-Huah Wang. "Changing Employment and Work Schedule Patterns over the 30 Working Years--A Sequential Cluster Analysis." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health published online (21 October 2022): DOI: 10.3390/ijerph192013677.
2. Jiwatram, Tina
Sharma, Shilpi
Wang, Julia Shu-Huah
Oh, Hans Young
Impacts of Maternal Employment On Gender Attitudes and Work Behavior--an Analysis From National Longitudinal Survey 1979, 1987 & 2004
Presented: San Diego CA, Society for Social Work and Research Annual Conference, January 2013
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Society for Social Work and Research (SSWR)
Keyword(s): Attitudes; Gender Attitudes/Roles; Maternal Employment; Modeling, OLS

Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher.

This study utilizes data from the National Longitudinal Survey in 1979, 1987 and 2004, when respondents were in their adolescence, twenties and midlife, respectively. The dependent variable is measured using a gender attitude scale measuring respondents’ view of women in the workforce (0-12 scale, Cronbach’s alpha=0.84). Work behavior is measured by hours worked in the past calendar year. The main explanatory variable, maternal employment, is categorized as mothers who worked all year, part of the year or not at all in 1979. We treat data as pooled cross-sections since maternal employment was only captured in 1979. Ordinary least square (OLS) regression models are employed, controlling for major demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of respondents and parents. We interact year, gender, and type of maternal employment to delineate the cohort and gender trend across time.
Bibliography Citation
Jiwatram, Tina, Shilpi Sharma, Julia Shu-Huah Wang and Hans Young Oh. "Impacts of Maternal Employment On Gender Attitudes and Work Behavior--an Analysis From National Longitudinal Survey 1979, 1987 & 2004." Presented: San Diego CA, Society for Social Work and Research Annual Conference, January 2013.