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
June 14, 2023
Research Summary
It’s Not Always What You Know, It’s Who You Know: The Role of Social Capital in Economic Connectedness and Mobility
Recent research analyzed billions of Facebook interactions and found that if children from low-income households grew up in neighborhoods that had social connections similar to children from wealthier households, their incomes would be 20 percent higher during adulthood.
Social determinants of work
June 28, 2022
Article
Roe v. Wade’s Reversal Poses a Disproportionate Threat to Black Women’s Economic Mobility
The June 24 US Supreme Court ruling, which struck down the constitutional right to an abortion, will undermine Black women’s educational attainment, occupational outcomes, and lifetime earnings.
Social determinants of work
March 15, 2022
Article
What Happens If We Make Child Care Assistance Available to More Parents in Education and Training?
Reducing restrictions in the public child care subsidy program would allow more parents to receive assistance to go back to school, enabling them to complete a credential, raise their earnings, and reduce child poverty.
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