Recent scholarship has documented the effects of unstable scheduling practices on worker health and well-being, but there has been less research examining the intergenerational consequences of work schedule instability. This study investigates the relationship between parental exposure to unstable and unpredictable work schedules and child sleep quality. We find evidence of significant and large associations between parental exposure to each of five different types of unstable and unpredictable work scheduling practices and child sleep quality, including sleep duration, variability and daytime sleepiness. We are also able to mediate 35–50% of this relationship with measures of work–life conflict, parental stress and well-being, material hardship, and child behaviour. These findings suggest that the effects of the temporal dimensions of job quality extend beyond workers to their children, with implications for the mechanisms by which social inequality is reproduced and for social policies intended to regulate precarious and unequal employment conditions.

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父母工作安排不稳定和儿童睡眠质量的影响

最近的学术研究记录了不稳定的日程安排做法对工人健康和福祉的影响，但很少有研究探讨工作日程不稳定的代际后果。这项研究调查了父母不稳定和不可预测的工作时间表与儿童睡眠质量之间的关系。我们发现证据表明，父母接触五种不同类型的不稳定和不可预测的工作安排实践与儿童睡眠质量（包括睡眠持续时间、变异性和白天嗜睡）之间存在显着且巨大的关联。我们还能够通过衡量工作与生活冲突、父母压力和幸福感、物质困难和儿童行为来调节这种关系的 35-50%。这些发现表明，工作质量的时间维度的影响不仅限于工人，还影响到他们的子女，这对社会不平等的再现机制以及旨在调节不稳定和不平等就业条件的社会政策都有影响。