In three experiments, we examine how an employer reputation system disciplines an online labor market (Amazon … value of the employer reputation system for workers, employers, and the market. Specifically, in an experiment that varies … reputation, we find that having a good reputation allows employers at twice the rate as bad-reputation employers with no loss in …

theory. Our unified reputation framework theoretically allows for either the good or the bad reputation prediction to emerge …We experimentally test whether the possibility of building a reputation impacts behavior in the manner suggested by …. Our design additionally varies whether reputation building is possible or not by making the past choices of the long run …