The gender wage gap in an online labor market: The cost of interruptions
This paper analyses gender differences in working patterns and wages on Amazon Mechanical Turk, a popular online labour platform. Using information on 2 million tasks, we find no gender differences in task selection nor experience. Nonetheless, women earn 20% less per hour on average. Gender differe...
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sg-smu-ink.sis_research-93412024-02-27T03:37:19Z The gender wage gap in an online labor market: The cost of interruptions ADAMS-PRASSL, Abi HARA, Kotaro MILLAND, Kristy CALLISON-BURCH, Chris This paper analyses gender differences in working patterns and wages on Amazon Mechanical Turk, a popular online labour platform. Using information on 2 million tasks, we find no gender differences in task selection nor experience. Nonetheless, women earn 20% less per hour on average. Gender differences in working patterns are a significant driver of this wage gap. Women are more likely to interrupt their working time on the platform with consequences for their task completion speed. A follow-up survey shows that the gender differences in working patterns and hourly wages are concentrated amongst workers with children. 2023-02-01T08:00:00Z text application/pdf https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/8338 info:doi/10.1162/rest_a_01282 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/9341/viewcontent/GenderWageGap_av.pdf http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University Labor Economics Software Engineering |
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This paper analyses gender differences in working patterns and wages on Amazon Mechanical Turk, a popular online labour platform. Using information on 2 million tasks, we find no gender differences in task selection nor experience. Nonetheless, women earn 20% less per hour on average. Gender differences in working patterns are a significant driver of this wage gap. Women are more likely to interrupt their working time on the platform with consequences for their task completion speed. A follow-up survey shows that the gender differences in working patterns and hourly wages are concentrated amongst workers with children. |
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