Speaker: Minseop Kim, Associate Professor, Department of Social Work, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Time: 10:00am-11:30am, 23 Jun 2023 (Friday, HK Time)
Venue: Zoom (ZOOM Link will be sent to registered audience after finished the e-registration.)
Registration: https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/mycuform/view.php?id=1986809
Abstract:
With the emergence of 24/7 economies, many parents work nonstandard schedules, defined as work schedules that occur outside regular daytime, Monday to Friday schedules. This employment trend has raised concerns about its potential adverse impacts on children, in that such atypical schedules may be a stressful work arrangement that can disrupt parents’ engagement in effective parenting. However, a different perspective also exists, highlighting that some parents may intentionally choose to work nonstandard schedules for childcare reasons (e.g., maximizing time with their children during daytime), which possibly leads to positive child outcomes. These two competing perspectives suggest that understanding the impact that parental nonstandard work schedules may have on children is an empirical question rather than something that can be answered a priori. During this webinar, I will present empirical evidence on whether and how parental nonstandard work schedules influence child outcomes, with a focus on the findings from my research projects utilizing data from the U.S. and Hong Kong.
About the Speaker:
Minseop Kim is an associate professor at the Department of Social Work, the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He received his PHD degree in Social Welfare from University of Pennsylvania. Prof. Kim’s research interests concentrate on work-family relations, social policy for children and youth, child welfare and protection, program evaluation and policy analysis, and quantitative methodology. He has published in Children and Youth Service Review, Journal of Family Studies, Journal of Social Work, Frontiers in Psychology, Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal, Journal of Family Issues and more. Prof. Kim is also a member of the Jockey Club MEL Institute Project and the CLAP@JC.
