Working in the Service Sector in Michigan 67% 64% - Insufficient Wages and Work Hours

This research brief is part of a series designed to Insufficient Wages and Work Hours advance our understanding of working conditions in the service sector – in particular, schedule The service sector in Michigan, as well as elsewhere instability and unpredictability – in cities and in the United States, is characterized by low-wage states across the country. [...] At the same time, there was a small Schedules and Worker Health reduction in the share of workers who wanted to work more hours (55% to 49%), and a small reduction Overall, many Michigan service sector workers in the share of workers who were involuntarily part- faced significant work-life conflict and economic time (32% to 27%). [...] The authors gratefully acknowledge the work of Shift Project Research Data Analyst, Connor Williams, in preparing the data for this research brief and the work of Shift Project Pre-Doctoral Fellow, Evelyn Bellew, and Research Project Manager, Alessandra Soto, in design and layout. [...] First, we construct survey weights to adjust the demographic characteristics of the Michigan Shift survey sample to match the demographic characteristics of Michigan service sector workers in the American Community Survey (ACS) for the years 2010-2018. [...] We align the ACS sample with the Shift sample by selecting workers in the ACS who are employed in the same occupations and industries as the Shift sample and report that their place of work is within the state of Michigan.