Journal article
Collecting and Using Employer-Worker Matched Data
Sociological focus (Kent, Ohio), Vol.36(1), pp.81-95
02/01/2003
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/124342
Abstract
Employer-worker matched data, data containing information about workers and their employing establishments, provide a beneficial data source for organizational sociologists. Researchers can use matched data to investigate how organizational contexts and individual attributes affect work outcomes and to identify the causal mechanisms that produce workplace inequality. This article describes three methods of collecting employer-worker matched data and the benefits and drawbacks associated with each method. I highlight how researchers can use matched data by linking each method with specific research goals. In doing so, I pay particular attention to the ways researchers can use matched data to improve our understanding of inequality in the workplace.
Metrics
2 Record Views
Details
- Title
- Collecting and Using Employer-Worker Matched Data
- Creators
- Julie A Kmec - Washington State University
- Publication Details
- Sociological focus (Kent, Ohio), Vol.36(1), pp.81-95
- Academic Unit
- Sociology, Department of
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Group
- Identifiers
- 99900669107201842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article