Declining Job Quality in the United States: Explanations and Evidence

David R. Howell; Arne L. Kalleberg

doi:10.7758/RSF.2019.5.4.01

Article Information

vol. 5 no. 4 1-53

DOI

https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2019.5.4.01

Published By

RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences

Print ISSN

2377-8253

Online ISSN

2377-8261

History

Published online September 1, 2019.

© 2019 Russell Sage Foundation. Howell, David R., and Arne L. Kalleberg. 2019. “Declining Job Quality in the United States: Explanations and Evidence.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 5(4): 1–53. DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2019.5.4.01. We thank the participants of the conference on Changing Job Quality held at the Russell Sage Foundation in June 2018 for their helpful input on this paper as well as the valuable feedback we received from three external reviewers. We especially appreciate the comments on earlier drafts that we received from Eileen Appelbaum, Alison Campion, Peter Cappelli, Maury Gittleman, Sabrina Howell, Jennifer Hunt, Lane Kenworthy, Jeffrey Madrick, and John Schmitt. Howell thanks the Washington Center for Equitable Growth for the support that helped make possible some of the empirical results that appear in the paper. Direct correspondence to: David R. Howell at howell@newschool.edu, 72 5th Ave., #702, New York, NY 10011; and Arne L. Kalleberg at arnekal@email.unc.edu, CB #3210 Hamilton Hall, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599. Open Access Policy: RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences is an open access journal. This article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.