Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/324830 
Year of Publication: 
2025
Series/Report no.: 
Upjohn Institute Working Paper No. 25-420
Publisher: 
W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, Kalamazoo, MI
Abstract: 
This paper models fair workweek regulations that require employers to provide employees with (1) schedule predictability via advance notice of their work schedule and premium payments for short-notice changes, and (2) access to hours meaning they must offer open hours to existing employees before hiring new workers. We develop a theoretical model of employers' responses to these provisions and their implications for employment. Guided by the model, we estimate the effects of recently-adopted fair workweek regulation in New York City's fast-food sector using a synthetic difference-in-differences design. We find a null employment effect.
Subjects: 
fair workweek
schedule predictability
access to hours
local labor markets
employment
synthetic difference-in-differences
JEL: 
J08
J21
K31
M51
H73
J63
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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