Download This PaperMonopsony and the Crowd: Labor for Lemons?
44 Pages Posted: 19 Oct 2018
Date Written: September 01, 2014
Abstract
Amazon Mechanical Turk (AMT) is an online labor market (OLM) where requesters ("employers") post tasks ("jobs") for workers to do for pay. We evaluate whether requesters on the platform have monopsony power and whether the platform is competitive or not in regards to labor.
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Kingsley, Sara and Gray, Mary-Louise and Suri, Siddharth, Monopsony and the Crowd: Labor for Lemons? (September 01, 2014). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3257857 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3257857
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