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Can Reputation Discipline the Gig Economy? Experimental Evidence from an Online Labor Market
Benson, Alan; Sojourner, Aaron J.; Umyarov, Akhmed - 2015
In two experiments, we examine the effects of employer reputation in an online labor market (Amazon Mechanical Turk) in which employers may decline to pay workers while keeping their work product. First, in an audit study of employers by a blinded worker, we find that working only for good...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401783
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Ethnic Networks and International Trade
Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2004
building trust and substituting for the difficulty of enforcing contracts internationally. The networks we are interested in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261988
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Interactions between local and migrant workers at the workplace
Epstein, Gil S.; Mealem, Yosef - 2010
In this paper we consider the interaction between local workers and migrants in the production process of a firm. Both local workers and migrants can invest effort in assimilation activities in order to increase the assimilation of the migrants into the firm and thereby increase their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272672
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Ethnicity, Assimilation and Harassment in the Labor Market
Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
We often observe minority ethnic groups at a disadvantage relative to the majority. Why is this and what can be done about it? Efforts made to assimilate, and time, are two elements working to bring the minority into line with the majority. A third element, the degree to which the majority...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233855
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Interactions between Local and Migrant Workers at the Workplace
Epstein, Gil S.; Mealem, Yosef - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
In this paper we consider the interaction between local workers and migrants in the production process of a firm. Both local workers and migrants can invest effort in assimilation activities in order to increase the assimilation of the migrants into the firm and thereby increase their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008466022
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Ethnic Networks and International Trade
Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
building trust and substituting for the difficulty of enforcing contracts internationally. The networks we are interested in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763717
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Formal and Informal Risk Sharing in LDCs: Theory and Empirical Evidence
Dubois, Pierre; Jullien, Bruno; Magnac, Thierry - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
We develop and estimate a model of dynamic interactions between households where commitment is limited and contracts …. Households can insure through both formal contracts and informal agreements, that is, agreements specifying voluntary transfers …. Incentive constraints due to self-enforcement bind with positive probability and formal contracts are used to reduce this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566519
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An Experimental Test of Career Concerns
Koch, Alexander K.; Morgenstern, Albrecht; Raab, Philippe - 2004
Holmström?s (1982/99) career concerns model has become an important workhorse for the analysis of agency issues in many fields. The underlying signal jamming argument requires players to use information in a Bayesian way – which may or may not reasonably approximate real-life decision makers?...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262147
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Implicit Contracts, Incentive Compatibility, and Involuntary Unemployment: Thirty Years On
MacLeod, W. Bentley; Malcomson, James - 2023
"Implicit Contracts, incentive compatibility, and involuntary unemployment" (MacLeod and Malcomson, 1989) remains our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014296625
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Incentives Can Reduce Bias in Online Reviews
Marinescu, Ioana E.; Klein, Nadav; Chamberlain, Andrew; … - 2018
motivated to share them than people with moderate opinions, resulting in biased distributions of reviews. Providing incentives … for reviewing has the potential to reduce this selection bias, because incentives can mitigate the motivational deficit of …, providing relatively high monetary rewards or a pro-social cue as incentives for reviewing reduces this bias. We conclude that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011816639