Biography
Teaching Interests and Courses taught
Labor Market Analysis (HRER 816--World Campus/Labor Studies and Employment Relations Professional Master's Degree).
Economics of Labor Markets (ECON 410).
Labor Economics (ECON 315).
Work-Life Policies and Practices (LER 472).
Employment Relations (LER 100).
Microeconomics (ECON 2).
Previously:
Intermediate Macroeconomics (ECON 304).
Price Theory (BA 533, PSU Great Valley MBA).
HDFS 424 (The Family in Economic Context).
Macroeconomics (ECON 4).
Selected Awards, Grants
WorkRise, Urban Institute, Washington DC. 2022-2024
Project for Middle Class Renewal, University of Illinois, 2016-17; 2021-24
Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP), Washington DC, 2018-19,
International Labor Organization (ILO), Geneva Switzerland, 2017
Overtime Pay for Salaried Workers, Irregular Work Scheduling, Underemployment, Economic Policy Institute, 2014-15.
Work-Sharing and Reduced Hours in the US: Policies and Potentially Positive Effects, International Labor Organization, 2009
Work-Scheduling Project, Consultant to Grant toSocial Services Administration, University of Chicago.
Workplace Flexibility 2010, Georgetown University Law, 2008.
Annual Scholar Award, Penn State Abington College, 2007.
Career Development Professorship, Penn State Abington College, 2005-07.
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Workplace, Workforce and Working Families program, 2006.
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Workplace, Workforce and Working Families program, 2004-06
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Workplace, Workforce and Working Families program, 2002-03
Nominated article, for Kanter Award for Excellence in Work-Family Research, 2002.
Economic Policy Institute, 2001-03.
Research Interests
Economics of Work Hours, Work Schedules, Workplace Flexibility, Overwork, Student Employment, Contingent Employment, Time Use and Worker Well Being (Health, Happiness).
Publications
Selected publications list
The Rise And Fall Of Underemployment: Implications For Workers' Health https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hpb20230602.799370/full/
Inadequacy inequality: the distribution and consequences of part-time underemployment in the US https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13668803.2021.1985433
A Good Job not Just Any Job: Employment Quality in Illinois
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4275555
Workplace Flexibility and Worker Well-Being by Gender
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jomf.12633?casa_token=HlaKVuclP_YAAAAA%3AAWWAUIM82QgASGubWDFVaRs3gBZQzGzipO7NUUHdvBrG3loizFRus7dkA0OxVMUI8Duqf557WMyD3A
The involuntary part-time work and underemployment problem in the US
https://www.voced.edu.au/content/ngv%3A87582
Part Time Pay Penalties Persisting in US Labor Markets
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3795501
Happiness is Flextime
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11482-017-9525-8
Positive and negative application of flexible working time arrangements: comparing the United States of America and the EU countries https://www.elgaronline.com/display/edcoll/9781784711122/9781784711122.00020.xml
Scheduling Stability: The Landscape of Work Schedules and Potential Gains From Fairer Workweeks in Illinois and Chicago, May 2018
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3172354
A Happiness and Objective Well-Being Index (HOW-IS-IL) for Living and Working in the State of Illinois, 2016-17 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3044508
Irregular Work Shifts, Work Schedule Flexibility and Associations with Work-Family Conflict and Work Stress in the U.S., Sarah De Groof et al. "Work-Life Balance in the Modern Workplace. Interdisciplinary Perspectives from Work-Family Research, Law and Policy." (2017).
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3009948
Still Falling Short on Hours and Pay: Part-Time Work Becoming New Normal, Dec 2016
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2881673
FLSA Working Hours Reform: Worker Well-Being Effects in an Economic Framework, Industrial Relations (forthcoming, October 2015).
Overwork, Overemployment and Workaholism: Distinctions between Heavy Investments in Work Time. Heavy Investments in Work Time, Itzhak Harpaz and Raphael Snir (eds.), Psychology Press Taylor & Francis Group (Emerald), 2015, pp. 140-169.
Explaining Organizational Variation in Flexible Work Arrangements: Why the Pattern and Scale of Availability Matter. Community, Work & Family Vol. 17, issue 2, 2014, 115-141 (with Stephen Sweet, Marcie Pitt-Catsouphes and Elyssa Besen).
Work Schedule Flexibility for Workers: A Path to Employee Happiness? Journal of Social Research and Policy. Symposium Issue: Between Wealth and Well Being, 4(2), December 2013, 107-135. (with J. Henly, S. Lambert and J. Kim).
Education
Ph. D., Economics, University of Illinois-Urbana