Publications
2026
Benchmarks for Evaluating Compliance with Protected Time Off Laws
Shift Project Research BriefWhat Do Workers Want and Need: Partisan Consensus on What it Takes to Make Ends Meet
Shift Project Research BriefHow Well is Fair Workweek Working? A Review of Existing Research
Shift Project Research Brief2025
Amazon Drives Low Wages: The Unraveling of Workplace Protections for Delivery Drivers
Shift Project Research BriefIKEA Self-Scheduling Intervention: Implementation and Impact Report
Shift Project Research Brief2024
IKEA Self-Scheduling Intervention: Baseline Report
Shift Project Research BriefCompliance and the Complaint Gap: Labor Standards Violations in the California Service Sector
Shift Project Research Brief2023
Working in the Service Sector in Michigan
Shift Project Research BriefMost Hourly Workers at Large Service Sector Firms Still Lack Paid Sick Leave
Shift Project Research BriefDreams Deferred: Downward Mobility and Making Ends Meet in the Service Sector
Shift Project Research BriefWhy Are Young Workers Leaving Their Jobs?
Shift Project Research Brief2022
Who Benefited from Expanded Paid Sick Leave Policies for Service Workers? And Who Didn’t?
Research Brief. Federal Reserve Bank of BostonThe Company Wage Tracker: Estimates of Wages at 66 Large Service Sector Employers
Shift Project Research BriefWorking in the Service Sector in Colorado
Shift Project Research BriefStill Unstable: The Persistence of Schedule Uncertainty During the Pandemic
Shift Project Research Brief2021
Employee Vaccination Rates in the Retail Sector: Successes and Resistance
Shift Project Research BriefPaid Family and Medical Leave in the U.S. Service Sector
Shift Project Research BriefUnstable, Unpredictable, and Insufficient: Work Scheduling in the Service Sector in New England
Research Brief. Federal Reserve Bank of BostonEarly Career Workers in the Service Sector
Shift Project/Annie E. Casey Foundation Research BriefHalf of Service Sector Workers Are Not Yet Vaccinated for COVID-19: What Gets in the Way?
Shift Project Research Brief2020
Paid Sick Leave in Virginia: Evidence from the Shift Project
Shift Project Research BriefWorking in the Service Sector in New Jersey
Shift Project Research BriefEstimates of Workers Who Lack Access to Paid Sick Leave at 91 Large Service Sector Employers
Shift Project Research BriefEssential and Vulnerable: Service Sector Workers and Paid Sick Leave
Shift Project Research BriefEssential and Unprotected: COVID-19-related Health and Safety Procedures for Service-Sector Workers
Shift Project Research BriefEssential Changes Needed for Essential Workers: Job Quality for California’s Service Sectors
Shift Project/Irvine Foundation BriefCOVID-19 Safety Measures Update
Shift Project Research Brief2019
Consequences of Routine Work Schedule Instability for Worker Health and Wellbeing
Shift Project Research BriefWorking in the Service Sector in Boston
Shift Project Research Brief2018
Working in the Service Sector in Washington State
Shift Project Research BriefWorking in the Service Sector in Connecticut
Shift Project Research BriefWorking in the Service Sector in Philadelphia
Shift Project Research Brief