The condition of the Turking class: Are online employers fair and honest?

John Horton

Economics Letters, 2011, vol. 111, issue 1, 10-12

Abstract: Critics of online labor markets claim that employer abuses are endemic in these markets. Surveying a sample of workers, I find that, on average, workers perceive online employers to be slightly fairer and more honest than offline employers.

Keywords: Crowdsourcing; Experimentation; Amazon; mechanical; turk; Online; labor; markets (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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