Overview
Certain opportunities aligned with a given job—such as access to dependable family care, reliable and affordable transportation, and workplace benefits like health care and paid leave—can affect people’s ability to succeed at work. WorkRise generates evidence on and elevates our understanding of how these social determinants of work can support job stability and worker well-being as well as how they affect equity in the workplace.
Working Knowledge
Social determinants of work
March 05, 2024
Article
Move to Opportunity or Invest Locally: What helps workers get ahead?
Federal, state, and local investment in underresourced communities is more effective in improving low-wage workers’ economic mobility than moving them to well-funded communities.
Social determinants of work
January 23, 2024
Research Summary
Eviction Cases Penalize Low-Wage Workers When They’re Down
Housing evictions lead to more than just immediate shelter concerns. Tenants
face lower earnings and worse health outcomes in the years before and after an eviction case is filed against them.
Social determinants of work
January 09, 2024
Research Summary
Less Money, More Problems: Financial Stress and Psychological Harm among Vulnerable Workers
A recent study finds that those who are low income or unemployed are among groups more susceptible to financial stress and psychological harm. Workers who are already disadvantaged in the labor market—such as those who are women and/or less educated—are likely to have even higher psychological distress when faced with economic concerns.
Social determinants of work
October 05, 2023
Article
Lessons from the 2023 Freedom & Justice Conference: By/For/With Our Communities
This reflection of the 2023 Freedom & Justice Conference underscores the importance of recognizing historical oppression, collecting inclusive data, and designing culturally competent initiatives to address the enduring challenges faced by many Indigenous communities. This imperative extends to various marginalized groups and the diverse stakeholders who work to improve their wellbeing.
Research
Social determinants of work
Executive Summary
July 13, 2023
The Rise and Fall of Underemployment: Implications for Workers' Health
This brief offers an overview of the literature exploring the connection between underemployment and health outcomes. Public policies can be crucial in mitigating the negative health effects associated with underemployment. However, more comprehensive data on transitions into and out of underemployment are required to inform future research and policy initiatives.
Grantee Research
Social determinants of work
Brief
September 29, 2022
The EITC and Racial Income Inequality
A new analysis from WorkRise grantees finds that the earned income tax credit reduces racial income inequality among lower- and middle-income households but may widen it for households in deep poverty.
Grantee Research
Social determinants of work
Executive Summary
March 29, 2022
Income Inequality, Race, and the EITC
New grantee research finds the 1993 expansion of the earned income tax credit reduced income inequality among Black and white households in the lower half of the income distribution through a significant employment response among Black households.
March 29, 2022
Social determinants of work
Report
March 15, 2022
Implications of Providing Child Care Assistance to Parents In Education and Training
New WorkRise research uses microsimulation to model a hypothetical policy scenario where more parents in education and training were eligible for and received public child care subsidies.
Grantee Research
Social determinants of work
March 15, 2022
Expanding Child Care Subsidies to Parents in Education and Training
A fact sheet summarizes findings from a new WorkRise report that models a hypothetical policy scenario where more parents in education and training were eligible for and received public child care subsidies.
Grantee Research