Authors:

  • Yiling Chen

Excerpt

The Effects of Performance-Contingent Financial Incentives in Online Labor Markets. Yiling Chen, July 2013, Paper. "Online labor markets such as Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) have emerged as platforms that facilitate the allocation of productive effort across global economies. Many of these markets compensate workers with monetary payments. We study the effects of performance-contingent financial rewards on work quality and worker effort in MTurk via two experiments. We find that..." Link Verified October 11, 2014