Estimates of the share of American workers with irregular and on-call work schedules range from 10 percent to nearly 20 percent, according to government and private surveys cited in a recent paperby Lonnie Golden, a professor of economics at Pennsylvania State University. In one survey, almost 20 percent of workers said they had “a day or less” advance notice of their work hours and days. An additional 12 percent reported advance notice of two to three days and 12 percent had notice of four days to a week.
The New York Times
August 14, 2015
That’s according to a new study by the Economic Policy Institute that focuses on children whose parents have unusual work schedules that vary weekly, rotate or feature hours outside 8 a.m to 4 p.m. Toddlers whose mothers hold schedules like those may suffer from problem-solving skills and their language skills may falter; teens are more likely to be depressed and engage in risky behavior. Meanwhile fathers risk having a less close relationship with their children. “Parents need to have regular schedules for their children,” says EPI research associate Richard Rothstein. “Children need to be read to before bedtime. They need high-quality early childhood experiences.”
Today Show
August 14, 2015
Even working a strict 9-to-5 schedule can make taking care of young children difficult. But when parents have a schedule that is different every week, or even every day, it has an outsized impact on children, according to a new report from the Economic Policy Institute (EPI). In a policy brief, the EPI summarizes the research into non-standard work shifts, defined as “non-daytime shifts in which most hours do not fall between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m., when shifts rotate, or when schedules vary weekly or otherwise.”
Boston.com
August 14, 2015
Companies like Guitar Center would not pay labor relations consultants top dollar if meetings like Ciabattoni’s were not generally effective. According to a 2009 study done by Cornell labor expert Kate Bronfenbrenner and published by the Economic Policy Institute, workers who sat through anti-union meetings at work were significantly more likely to vote against the union in their election.
The Huffington Post
August 14, 2015
For years, executive pay has increased much faster than pay for workers. Twenty years ago, executive pay was 20 times higher than employees’ pay. In 2013, executive pay was 300 times higher than workers pay, according to the nonpartisan research group, the Economic Policy Institute.
The Chicago Tribune
August 14, 2015
Already, it’s clear that CEOs have been profiting handsomely during the past few decades, while average worker pay has stagnated. CEO pay has surged 937 percent from 1978 through 2013, compared with a 10.2 percent increase in a typical employee’s paycheck during the same period, the left-leaning think tank Economic Policy Institute found in June. CEOs in 2014 earned 296 times the average worker, compared with a 30-to-1 ratio in 1978, the EPI found.
CBS Moneywatch
August 14, 2015
Under their methodology, Piketty and Saez’s average inflation-adjusted incomes for the bottom 90 percent (which includes some of the upper middle class) in 2013 were about the same that they were in 1968 and 6 percent lower in 2013 than they were in 1979. Similarly, in terms of earnings, Larry Mishel and his colleagues at the Economic Policy Institute report that real median hourly pay increased by just 6 percent from 1979 to 2013.
Washington Monthly
August 14, 2015
A growing body of research suggests that children’s language and problem-solving skills may suffer as a result of their parents’ problematic schedules, and that they may be more likely than other children to smoke and drink when they are older. “Young children and adolescents of parents working unpredictable schedules or outside standard daytime working hours are more likely to have inferior cognitive and behavioral outcomes,” the Economic Policy Institute, a liberal advocacy group, said last week in a report.
The New York Times
August 13, 2015
The practice allows firms to avoid paying payroll taxes or offering employer benefits, such as a minimum wage or health insurance. And it can make life harder for workers who already may be struggling to make ends meet, said Lawrence Mishel, president of the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute.
The Washington Post
August 12, 2015
According to one frequently cited study by the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute, the average CEO earned 30 times the typical worker in 1978; today, that ratio is 303 to 1. As executive pay spirals, what companies are getting in exchange isn’t terribly clear.
Boston Globe
August 12, 2015