“We don't need no (higher) education” - How the gig economy challenges the education-income paradigm

Herrmann, Andrea; Zaal, Petra M.; Chappin, Maryse M.H.; Schemmann, Brita; Lühmann, Amelie

doi:10.1016/j.techfore.2022.122136

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“…This will help the universities to understand which skill to focus on more to produce individuals who can have better careers. Lack of certain employability skills that affect individual's careers can even lead to occupational stresses (Emanuel et al, 2021;Herrmann et al, 2023).…”

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Gap Analysis of existing managerial skill set and the skills imparted by the management institutes for the IT Industry

Chadha

Gupta

Tewari

2022

Econ. Bus. Account. Soc. Rev

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Nowadays, it becomes more important to produce rightly skilled individuals with the skills to survive and flourish in the industry. This paper focuses on the skill set that the management institutes are developing and how well that skill set is catering to the current era's IT industry. Such a sample population covers all the IT firms of India, registered as authorized companies and management institutes of the country that follow the overall accepted curriculum for management studies. A sample of 54 respondents was taken. The survey was done, questionnaires were floated to gather data, and further IBM SPSS was used for statistical analysis and to interpret the results. This research reveals a huge gap between the skills required and the skill set provided. It also brings out the key factors to address to fill the gap. Not only the factors but also the best possible methods to overcome such gaps have been brought to light in this paper. It gives an insight into the industry's dynamics and how important it is to cope with them for survival.

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Gap Analysis of existing managerial skill set and the skills imparted by the management institutes for the IT Industry

Chadha

Gupta

Tewari

2022

Econ. Bus. Account. Soc. Rev

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“…Beyond Workload Volume and Pace, a broader spectrum of job demands could be investigated, like customer interactions, payment dynamics, or physical risks associated with traffic. Recent studies provided empirical evidence on the stressful impact of customers’ incivility, 6 , 38 occupational stigma, 39 and lower educational levels 40 among other factors that could negative influence food delivers work-related quality of life. Comparing the experiences of food-delivery workers in China with those in other countries could provide a cross-cultural perspective on the challenges and protective factors in this rapidly growing industry.…”

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Job Demands and Mental Health Deterioration: Investigating the Mediating Role of Resiliency

Han

2024

PRBM

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Introduction In the past decade, China has witnessed a significant surge in the popularity of food delivery apps, with its industry now thrice the size of the U.S, employing approximately 7 million drivers navigating urban landscapes on electric bikes and scooters. Predominantly, the market is governed by two main players: Meituan Dianping (backed by Tencent) and Ele.me (supported by Alibaba). Notably, stress and absenteeism stand out as significant challenges in this service sector, with implications for occupational health that translate into considerable costs for both healthcare systems and companies. Existing research has largely overlooked how job demands affect the mental health of food delivery workers in China, and how resilience plays a role in this process. The present study addresses this gap by examining the direct impact of Workload Volume and Pace on the mental health of these workers, and by exploring how personal resilience can mediate this relationship. Furthermore, it delves into the mediating role of Resilience, a personal strength, in this relationship. Methods Using a correlational design with 206 participants, multiple regression analysis suggested a notable variance in Mental Health Decline. Results Subsequent bootstrapping-mediated analysis confirmed resilience’s mediating role, highlighting its importance in managing stress from workload. Discussion The results underscore the critical role of personal strengths in managing work-related stress, which can significantly impact both job performance and mental well-being.

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“…However, limited research on the anxiety associated with online ratings appears in topic #9, which is unique to task-based work and is significantly associated with earnings [ 149 ]. We urge researchers to further investigate those issues, particularly with respect to women workers.…”

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The blessing and curse of “no strings attached”: An automated literature analysis of psychological health and non-attachmental work in the digitalization era

Rashid,

Möckel,

Bohn

2024

PLoS ONE

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Amidst tremendous changes in the worlds of work in light of digitalization, non-attachmental work designs, where individuals gain income without being bound by a fixed administrative attachment to an employer, hold promises of self-actualization along with threats of insecurity. Today’s technology boom and the consequent flexibility and uncertainty it brings into workers’ lives may translate into inspiring growth opportunities or overloading pressure, contingent upon mental health and wellbeing impacts. This paper first provides a conceptualization of the non-attachmental work designs of the 21st century, before proceeding to an extensive mapping of literature at their intersection with psychological health. This involves a machine-learning-driven review of 1094 scientific articles using topic modeling, combined with in-depth manual content analyses and inductive-deductive cycles of pattern discovery and category building. The resulting scholarly blueprint reveals several tendencies, including a prevalence of positive psychology concepts in research on work designs with high levels of autonomy and control, contrasted with narratives of disempowerment in service- and task-based work. We note that some psychological health issues are researched with respect to specific work designs but not others, for instance neurodiversity and the role of gender in ownership-based work, self-image and digital addiction in content-based work, and ratings-induced anxiety in platform-mediated task-based work. We also find a heavy representation of ‘heroic’ entrepreneurs, quantitative methods, and western contexts in addition to a surprising dearth of analyses on the roles of policy and technological interventions. The results are positioned to guide academics, decision-makers, technologists, and workers in the pursuit of healthier work designs for a more sustainable future.

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“We don't need no (higher) education” - How the gig economy challenges the education-income paradigm

Cited by 24 publications

References 54 publications

Gap Analysis of existing managerial skill set and the skills imparted by the management institutes for the IT Industry

Gap Analysis of existing managerial skill set and the skills imparted by the management institutes for the IT Industry

Job Demands and Mental Health Deterioration: Investigating the Mediating Role of Resiliency

The blessing and curse of “no strings attached”: An automated literature analysis of psychological health and non-attachmental work in the digitalization era

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