Logan Allison, Schneider Daniel
University of California, Berkeley, USA.
Harvard Kennedy School, USA.
Work Employ Soc. 2025 Feb;39(1):64-90. doi: 10.1177/09500170241235863. Epub 2024 Apr 28.
Recent scholarship has documented the effects of unstable scheduling practices on worker health and well-being, but there has been less research examining the intergenerational consequences of work schedule instability. This study investigates the relationship between parental exposure to unstable and unpredictable work schedules and child sleep quality. We find evidence of significant and large associations between parental exposure to each of five different types of unstable and unpredictable work scheduling practices and child sleep quality, including sleep duration, variability and daytime sleepiness. We are also able to mediate 35-50% of this relationship with measures of work-life conflict, parental stress and well-being, material hardship, and child behaviour. These findings suggest that the effects of the temporal dimensions of job quality extend beyond workers to their children, with implications for the mechanisms by which social inequality is reproduced and for social policies intended to regulate precarious and unequal employment conditions.
近期的学术研究记录了不稳定的工作安排对工人健康和福祉的影响，但对于工作时间表不稳定的代际后果的研究较少。本研究调查了父母暴露于不稳定和不可预测的工作时间表与儿童睡眠质量之间的关系。我们发现，父母暴露于五种不同类型的不稳定和不可预测的工作安排中的每一种与儿童睡眠质量之间存在显著且较大的关联，包括睡眠时间、睡眠变异性和白天嗜睡。我们还能够通过工作与生活的冲突、父母压力与福祉、物质困难以及儿童行为等指标来调解这种关系的35%至50%。这些发现表明，工作质量的时间维度的影响不仅延伸到工人本身，还波及他们的子女，这对社会不平等得以再现的机制以及旨在规范不稳定和不平等就业条件的社会政策具有启示意义。
