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Developing a work-family-community footprint: Measuring the externalities of workplace practices While economic competition drives firms to examine the impact of working conditions on their internal productivity to ensure maximum shareholder value, equally important from a societal perspective—but not measured by firms—is the impact of working conditions more broadly, on families and their communities, or the “work-family-community footprint.” In this project, funded by the Sloan Foundation, we are developing the methodology and baseline data for measuring the external costs and benefits of working conditions, or social externalities, and will develop empirical estimates of those externalities. We are developing the instrument for and carrying out a national phone survey that will comprehensively assess the effects of workplace practices and conditions on employees’ ability to provide family care-giving and to contribute to the community.
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