{"title":"Econometric analysis of educational mismatch and earnings using survey data from Ghana","authors":"C. Darko, K. K. Abrokwa","doi":"10.4337/9781788118774.00024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788118774.00024","url":null,"abstract":"firm gender-related their modelling, labour market outcomes and inequality, structural Realized matches and objective methods are used to measure educational mismatch. There are observed differences in the incidences of over and undereducation depending on the method of measurement. Results from OLS selectivity-corrected regressions indicate a wage premium for workers with excess schooling and a penalty for workers with deficit schooling. ABSTRACT This chapter evaluates empirical methodologies that relate to the measurement of educational mismatch and estimation of earning regressions. The realised matches method and objective method are used to show evidence of the incidence of educational mismatch among wage workers in the Ghana labour market and their effects on earnings. We use micro data from the recent 2012/13 Ghana Living Standards Survey. The results indicate that each method produces different incidences of educational mismatch, although the associated returns to over and undereducation are similar. Our findings from OLS selectivity-corrected regressions highlight wage premium for workers with excess years of schooling than is required for their jobs, while a wage penalty is observed for workers with fewer years of schooling than is required for their jobs.","PeriodicalId":389249,"journal":{"name":"Handbook of Research Methods on the Quality of Working Lives","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129767959","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Generating and measuring impact: insights from research on the quality of working lives","authors":"C. Atkinson","doi":"10.4337/9781788118774.00007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788118774.00007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":389249,"journal":{"name":"Handbook of Research Methods on the Quality of Working Lives","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132317090","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Accessing and understanding autism spectrum conditions in the workplace","authors":"A. Cockayne","doi":"10.4337/9781788118774.00010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788118774.00010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":389249,"journal":{"name":"Handbook of Research Methods on the Quality of Working Lives","volume":"108 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116817033","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Effective use of secondary quantitative data sources","authors":"C. Lawton","doi":"10.4337/9781788118774.00020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788118774.00020","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":389249,"journal":{"name":"Handbook of Research Methods on the Quality of Working Lives","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123138136","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Using case study research to capture the quality of working lives","authors":"J. Burgess, J. Connell","doi":"10.4337/9781788118774.00017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788118774.00017","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":389249,"journal":{"name":"Handbook of Research Methods on the Quality of Working Lives","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127153373","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Secondary data analysis of large survey data: researching the quality of paid and unpaid working lives","authors":"Tracey Warren","doi":"10.4337/9781788118774.00021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788118774.00021","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":389249,"journal":{"name":"Handbook of Research Methods on the Quality of Working Lives","volume":"77 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129400249","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ethnographic methods with limited access: assessing quality of work in hard to reach jobs","authors":"Adam Badger, Jamie Woodcock","doi":"10.4337/9781788118774.00016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788118774.00016","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter explores the use of ethnographic methods in work contexts with access challenges. It is clear that many workplaces (broadly defined) have pressing concerns over quality of work, but many of these can be difficult to explore in empirical research. This chapter will focus particularly on examples in the gig economy, discussing a gig work platform and its growing presence in the UK. Beyond the glossy customer app and worker recruitment, the issues with quality of work have become obscured. The requirement to navigate and traverse the city, in collaboration with algorithmic management structures, makes this particularly suitable for experimental ethnographic methods. This chapter critically explores the authors’ own ethnographic research into the quality of working for a platform, in particular looking at questions of sustained access and the robustness of data collection methods. The aim is to further open the discourse on researching the “gig-economy”.","PeriodicalId":389249,"journal":{"name":"Handbook of Research Methods on the Quality of Working Lives","volume":"95 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130943158","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Quantitative methods of examining the impact of the physical work environment","authors":"E. J. Sander, A. Rafferty, P. Jordan","doi":"10.4337/9781788118774.00022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788118774.00022","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":389249,"journal":{"name":"Handbook of Research Methods on the Quality of Working Lives","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125066899","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Accessing ‘hard to reach groups’ and emotions in the research process: ‘work an honest day and get the usual raw deal’","authors":"A. Smith, J. Mcbride","doi":"10.4337/9781788118774.00013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788118774.00013","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter is based on detailed qualitative research into the working lives of low-paid workers in multiple employment. We discuss the research design and practicalities of researching a ‘hard to reach group’ of workers. The emotive and sensitive issues that emerged for both the researchers and participants are also assessed.","PeriodicalId":389249,"journal":{"name":"Handbook of Research Methods on the Quality of Working Lives","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123037007","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Madden, Catherine Bailey, Luke Fletcher, Kerstin Alfes
{"title":"Evaluating new techniques of evidence-based management using narrative evidence synthesis","authors":"A. Madden, Catherine Bailey, Luke Fletcher, Kerstin Alfes","doi":"10.4337/9781788118774.00028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788118774.00028","url":null,"abstract":"Evidence-based management is an approach to establishing ‘best evidence’ which developed from approaches in medical research in the form of systematic reviews. Its goal is to identify and verify relevant and reliable evidence. Interest in the approach has grown in the management field and new techniques have emerged to support this. We tested one of these techniques - narrative evidence synthesis - as a way to systematically identify and evaluate the evidence on employee engagement. Unlike systematic review, narrative evidence synthesis seeks to explain the effects and the contexts of research studies, to ‘tell the story’ of the research, through plausible explanation. However, it is a technique that has a number of strengths and weaknesses, not least placing overwhelming demands on researchers that are difficult to manage. We describe the use of this technique in some depth and the learning that arose from it.","PeriodicalId":389249,"journal":{"name":"Handbook of Research Methods on the Quality of Working Lives","volume":"104 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124210204","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}