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Mechanical Turk and Financial Dependency on Crowdsourcing

@inproceedings{Bogert2018MechanicalTA,
  title={Mechanical Turk and Financial Dependency on Crowdsourcing},
  author={Eric Bogert},
  booktitle={AMCIS},
  year={2018}
}
Some workers on Amazon Mechanical Turk (AMT) are dependent on income from AMT to pay for their basic needs. This could create two countervailing forces. Workers have incentives to work quickly, to maximize their income. However, if workers work too quickly, resulting in poor quality, they won't have access to the highest paying tasks on the platform. This is a feature of work that is paid per-task, rather than per-hour. This paper investigates whether workers who are financially dependent on… 
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