Table 1 Overview of referenced literature concerning methodological or content research based on web surveys and job portal data (Section 2)
From: Using online vacancies and web surveys to analyse the labour market: a methodological inquiry
Authors | Type of paper | Data | Methods | Results |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Askitas and Zimmermann (2015) | Methodological | Literature and database survey | Review | As the internet population is becoming more and more equal to the total population, sampling may even become obsolete in cases where researchers would have access to the full data. On the other hand privacy issues can be a threat to the use of internet data. |
Barnichon (2010) | Methodological | Job advertisements in print and online | Elaboration of composite index | Calculates a composite Help-Wanted index used in the US in policy and research to estimate the state of the labour market. |
Couper (2000) | Methodological | Literature and database survey | Review | Web-based survey data has the advantage of easy access and potentially wide coverage, it is more difficult to determine the quality of the survey and as the number of surveys grows it is becoming more difficult to conduct high quality surveys as participants may become wary. |
Dillman et al. (2014) | Methodological | - | Methodological guide | Guide to conducting web surveys making use of comparisons to more traditional survey methods to show challenges arising across various types of survey methods such as non-response and sample selection. |
Gosling et al. (2004) | Methodological | Internet sample and traditional sample | Systematic comparison | Web surveys can be characterised by certain ‘preconceptions’ related to the quality of the data, such as the lack of demographic diversity of Internet samples, social isolation and depression of Internet users, anonymity of participants, lack of motivation of respondents inter alia |
Guzi and Kahanec (2014) | Methodological/Content research | WageIndicator | ILO standards described in Anker (2011) | Computation of living wages data |
de Leeuw (2005, 2010) | Methodological | Literature and database survey | Review | Discusses the advantages and disadvantages of mixed survey methods based on written, telephone and internet surveys. |
Mang (2012) | Methodological | Literature and database survey | Review | Job portals serve as an important platform for labour market matching. |
de Pedraza et al. (2010) | Methodological | WageIndicator data and Labour Force Survey in Spain | Statistical analysis of labour market issues | Some parameters moved in the right direction after weighting, but other methods need to be considered, including propensity score adjustment or a priori measures, such as marketing and targeting. |
Reips (2006) | Methodological | Literature review | Categorisation of web-based data in psychology | In the field of psychological assessment, methodology is likely to develop and adapt to accommodate benefits of web-based techniques of data collection |
Reips (2012) | Methodological | Literature and database survey | Review | He concludes that while there are still doubts about whether this relatively new data source should be widely used, it is already used in numerous studies. |
Reips and Buffardi (2012) | Methodological | Social networking webpages | Review of Internet-Based Research Methods and application to social networking data | Internet data can be used for research both with migrants and on the psychological impressions others have of migrants. |
Schonlau et al. (2009) | Methodological | US Health and Retirement study | Adjustments help to correct variances in sample means but differences between a general sample and an internet sample remain large on a number of parameters. | |
Steinmetz and Tijdens(2009) | Methodological | WageIndicator data and German SOEP data | Implementation of different weighting techniques to correct web-based data | Different correction techniques do not fundamentally improve the representativeness of web survey data, but more research is needed to identify why this is the case and suggest strategies for using web-based survey data. |
Steinmetz et al. (2009) | Methodological | German and Dutch WageIndicator data | Implementation of different weighting techniques to correct web-based data | The impact of the applied weights (post-stratification and propensity score adjustment) is very limited - using balancing variables does not make websurvey data more comparable to the general population. |
Steinmetz et al. (2013) | Methodological | WageIndicator data: US, Argentinean, Brazilian, Dutch, German and Spanish | Descriptive analysis, correlation analysis using post-stratification weighting. | The impact of post-stratification weights is rather limited, but more appropriate in the case of descriptive analysis. |
Stern et al. (2014) | Methodological | Literature review | - | Analyse the current state of survey methodology and point towards growing opportunities but also challenges as well as future developments that need to be observed. |
Backhaus (2004) | Content research | Job advertisements at Monster.com | Content analysis of text | Recruitment tactics of firm vary across different industries; firms typically focus on company branding than on employee benefits. |
Beblavý et al. (2015) | Content research | Private Slovak job portal | Content analysis of text, simple statistical methods | Employers in Slovakia are fairly demanding even in formally low-skilled jobs requiring a wide set of skills. |
Besamusca and Tijdens (2015) | Content research | Collective Agreements Database of the WageIndicator | Automated text analysis | The minority of agreements include specific wage levels while clauses on social security, working hours and work-family arrangements are included in the majority of cases. |
de Bustillo and de Pedraza (2010) | Content research | WageIndicator | Logistic regression | Age, wages, education as well as they type of contract determine job insecurity. |
Capiluppi and Baravalle (2010) | Content research | Job advertisements for IT staff at Monster.com | Content analysis of text | A mismatch between requirements of UK industry and offer of educational and training institutions exists. |
DeKay (2013) | Content research | Glassdoor | Content analysis of text, structured comparison | Testing and largely confirming validity of Frederick Herzberg’s Motivator-Hygiene theory |
Guzi and de Pedraza (2015) | Content research | WageIndicator | Ordinary least squares | Certain job characteristics going beyond pay such as job insecurity determine job satisfaction and other subjective well-being indicators. |
Huang et al. (2009) | Content research | Scholarly articles, practitioner literature and online job ads in IT profession | Content analysis of text, structured comparison | Findings suggest that the online advertisements list a wider mix of skills, while practitioner literature tends to focus heavily on technical skills. |
Kennan et al. (2006) | Content research | Online job advertisements in Australia and US | Content analysis of text | The study finds differences in the relative importance of skills across the two countries, and also variations over time. The results are presented as generalised for the librarian profession under study. |
Kuhn and Shen (2013) | Content research | Chinese private job portal | Web-crawler, complex statistical methods | Explicit gender discrimination exists in the Chinese labour market. |
Kureková et al. (2015) | Content research | EURES | Web crawling and automated text analysis | Non-cognitive skills matter in the service sector in a selected number of countries. |
Masso et al. (2014) | Content research | Online job portal from Estonia | Complex statistical methods | The authors did not find any positive effect on occupational mobility of return migrants, but this could be due to a short duration of migration or the character of home labour market. |
Maurer-Fazio and Lei (2015) | Content research | China's Internet job board and own online survey | Descriptive statistics and multivariate probit | Candidates with faces considered being unattractive need to send 33% more applications than those considered being attractive. |
Maurer-Fazio (2012) | Content research | China's Internet job board and field experiment | Multivariate and multinomial probit | Significant differences in the call-back rates based on ethnicity as well as heterogeneity in call-back rates across ethnic groups. |
Kureková and Zilinčíková (2015) | Content research | Profesia.sk | Logistic regression | Low educated workers and student workers do not compete for jobs but rather provide employers with different skill sets in a complementary way. |
Shen and Kuhn (2013) | Content research | Chinese private job portal | Web-crawler, complex statistical methods | Findings point to difficulties in labour market integration of Chinese college-educated youth |
Stefánik (2012) | Content research/Methodological | CVs and vacancies from private Slovak job portal and national LFS data | Content analysis and distributional frequencies | Analysis of online data can produce valuable information on skill demand for some particular groups in labour market. |
Tijdens et al. (2015) | Content research | WageIndicator and EURES | Web crawling and descriptive statistics | Mismatches can be identified for about one fourth of the examined occupations on the demand side and one third on the supply side. |
Young and Case (2004) | Content research | Voluntary web survey | Descriptive statistics | Examination of implementation levels of Internet use policies, management training, and clinical rehabilitation and their level of perceived effectiveness to deter employee Internet abuse. |