The Real Effects of Fair Workweek Laws on Work Schedules: Evidence from Los Angeles

The authors thank Daniel Schneider, Karan Girotra (Editor), an anonymous Associate Editor, and four anonymous referees for their comments that substantially improved this paper.

This paper makes use of confidential administrative data on various independent retail chains. The conclusions drawn from the data are those of the researchers and do not reflect the views of any retailers examined in this paper. These retailers had no role in, and bear no responsibility for, the analysis, hypotheses, or results reported herein. The corresponding author of this paper, C. Kwon, has received financial compensation for consulting work from some suppliers to the retailers examined in the paper. However, this author has not received compensation from the retailers examined in the paper.

This paper forms the basis for Chapter 2 of C. Kwon’s Ph.D. thesis, which was advised by A. Raman. This paper was previously circulated as “Understanding the Effects of Fair Workweek Laws on Worker Schedules” and “The Real Effects of Fair Workweek Laws on Work Schedules: Evidence from Chicago, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia.” The authors removed analyses of Chicago and Philadelphia from this version of the paper because of reviewer concerns about confounding effects, as these cities’ Fair Workweek Laws were implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic.