All Outputs (13)

Not just arms and legs: Employer perspectives on student workers (2022)
Journal Article

The student workforce plays a substantial part in several low-paying industries such as retail and hospitality, and this has grown over time. However, there has been little recent research. The usual assumption is that students compete successfully w... Read More about Not just arms and legs: Employer perspectives on student workers.

A marriage of convenience: How employers and students working in hospitality view the employment relationship (2022)
Journal Article

Since the 1990s, the hospitality industry has been increasingly characterized by temporary and insecure forms of employment, a development, which has coincided with rising numbers of students seeking part-time employment. This provides increased job... Read More about A marriage of convenience: How employers and students working in hospitality view the employment relationship.

Sequential mixed methods research: Non-compliance in apprentice pay with owls (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Within mixed methods literature, the relationship between qualitative and quantitative data collection is ubiquitously presented as sequential. Thus, the most followed approach is for the first stage of data collection to follow the second, or to run... Read More about Sequential mixed methods research: Non-compliance in apprentice pay with owls.

Not just arms and legs: Student working and the local labour market (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Not just arms and legs: The impact of student working on local labour markets (2019)
Preprint / Working Paper

Measuring compliance with minimum wages (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 - IOS Press and the authors. All rights reserved. Identifying genuine underpayment of minimum wages is not straightforward. Some well-known statistical issues affect the measurement of compliance rates, but factors such as processing or behavi... Read More about Measuring compliance with minimum wages.

Understanding apprentice pay: Final report (2016)
Report

This is the final report from a study of apprentice pay in the UK. It uses a mixed methods approach. Econometric analysis of the Apprentice Pay Survey and the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings confirms findings of previous reports that the apprenti... Read More about Understanding apprentice pay: Final report.

Non-compliance in the hairdressing and childcare sectors: A qualitative study of apprentice pay (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper presents some of the qualitative findings from some wider research undertaken for the Low Pay Commission on non-compliance in apprenticeship pay in the hairdressing and childcare sectors. Interviews with over seventy respondents, including... Read More about Non-compliance in the hairdressing and childcare sectors: A qualitative study of apprentice pay.

Overcoming barriers: Qualitative interviews with German elites (2014)
Journal Article

Despite the fact that qualitative interviews are reputed to be an effective method of obtaining data from organizational elites, studies are concurrent on a number of obstacles which surround the interviewing of senior management. Problem areas flagg... Read More about Overcoming barriers: Qualitative interviews with German elites.

Therapeutin oder spionin? Qualitative interviews with German senior managers (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Despite the fact that qualitative interviews are reputed to be an effective method of obtaining data from organizational elites, studies are concurrent on a number of obstacles which surround the interviewing of senior management. Problem areas flagg... Read More about Therapeutin oder spionin? Qualitative interviews with German senior managers.

How do knowledge brokers work? Implications for policy and practice in the case of WERS. (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The paper highlights the successful role played by knowledge brokers in bridging the gap between research and policy development. Drawing on the work of Oldham and McLean (1997) on the role of knowledge brokers, the paper identifies that intermediari... Read More about How do knowledge brokers work? Implications for policy and practice in the case of WERS..

How CESR informs student research: The engaging in critical business enquiry module at UWE (2013)
Journal Article

This article from the July 2013 edition of the CESR review outlines the objectives behind the UWE UG1 module Engaging in Critical Business Enquiry.

Flexible working in Germany (2012)
Journal Article

The spread of low-wage, low skill, low value-adding jobs within the third sector has been well documented in liberal market economies such as the United Kingdom. It may be expected that Germany, characterised as a coordinated market economy (CME), wh... Read More about Flexible working in Germany.