Does Mood affect Sexual and Gender Discrimination in Hiring Choices? Evidence from Online Experiments

Mourelatos, Evangelos

doi:10.1016/j.socec.2023.102069

Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics

2023

DOI: 10.1016/j.socec.2023.102069

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Does Mood affect Sexual and Gender Discrimination in Hiring Choices? Evidence from Online Experiments

Evangelos Mourelatos

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How has the COVID-19 pandemic shaped behavior in crowdsourcing? The role of online labor market training

Mourelatos,

Simonen,

Hosio

et al. 2024

J Bus Econ

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The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic and the associated lockdown measures have been a shock to market systems worldwide, affecting both the supply and demand of labor. Intensified by this pandemic-driven recession, online labor markets are in many ways at the core of the economic and policy debates about their technological innovation, which could be used as a way of economic reform and recovery. In this work, we focus on crowdsourcing, which is a specific type of online labor. We apply a unique dataset of labor data to investigate the effects of online training, a policy that was provided to requesters by the platform during the COVID-19 period. Our findings suggest that workers indirectly finance on-the-job online training by accepting lower wages during the pandemic. By utilizing a difference-in-difference research design, we also provide causal evidence that online training results in lower job completion time and the probability of being discontinued. Our findings show that both employers and employees in our online labor context reacted to the pandemic by participating in online labor procedures with different risk strategies and labor approaches. Our findings provide key insights for several groups of crowdsourcing stakeholders, including policy-makers, platform owners, hiring managers, and workers. Managerial and practical implications in relation to how online labor markets react to external shocks are discussed.

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How has the COVID-19 pandemic shaped behavior in crowdsourcing? The role of online labor market training

Mourelatos,

Simonen,

Hosio

et al. 2024

J Bus Econ

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Mood matters: the interplay of personality in ethical perceptions in crowdsourcing

Mourelatos

2024

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Productivity and Task Heterogeneity in Online Labor Markets: A Bonus Payment Experiment

Mourelatos,

Giannakopoulos,

Tzagarakis

2024

Bulletin of Econ Res

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We use an online experiment to investigate how monetary rewards and within‐task heterogeneity interact with workers’ productivity. By uniquely conceptualizing objective difficulty and complexity, we first investigate whether within‐task heterogeneity results in responses that are elicited solely by task characteristics related to the computational efficiency of the task doer. The subtasks’ difficulty and complexity have a robust reverse effect on every productivity outcome of the participant workers. Second, we find that monetary rewards mainly act as moderators of within‐task heterogeneity. Our investigation identified monetary rewards as a key moderator of within‐task heterogeneity. Notably, higher rewards effectively counteract the detrimental impact of task complexity and difficulty, yet we observe diminishing returns with extreme reward values. The study's central contribution lies in its uncovering of a complementary relationship. An optimally designed task coupled with a judicious reward policy not only eases workers’ perceived complexity and difficulty but also alleviates uncertainties that might otherwise hinder the achievement of high‐quality outcomes. This nuanced understanding provides valuable insights for shaping efficient task structures and reward strategies in the realm of online labor markets. An analysis of almost 20,396 crowdsourcing responses supports the theoretical model and hypotheses.

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Does Mood affect Sexual and Gender Discrimination in Hiring Choices? Evidence from Online Experiments

Cited by 3 publications

References 108 publications

How has the COVID-19 pandemic shaped behavior in crowdsourcing? The role of online labor market training

How has the COVID-19 pandemic shaped behavior in crowdsourcing? The role of online labor market training

Mood matters: the interplay of personality in ethical perceptions in crowdsourcing

Productivity and Task Heterogeneity in Online Labor Markets: A Bonus Payment Experiment

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