When Home Affects Pay: An Analysis of the Gender Pay Gap Among Crowdworkers

Adams‐Prassl, Abi; Berg, Janine

doi:10.2139/ssrn.3048711

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“…This is problematic as the primary goal of workers is income generation [4,13,46,49], rather than having fun or making pocket money [2,4,43]. Many people working on low paying HITs are likely from groups traditionally excluded from the formal labor market [1,4,10,64], such as people with disabilities who have challenges in securing jobs at contemporary office work environment [4,65]. Hara and Bigham noted that some crowd work like image transcription can be done by autistic people-a population that has challenge in securing jobs compared to those without disabilities [10,30,33]-but this type of work is exactly what generates the lowest hourly wages as we showed in the topical analysis.…”

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“…Crowdsourcing does not just enable novel technologies (e.g., human-powered word processing and assistive technologies [5,6]) that we create in the HCI community, but also facilitates new ways of working. Its remote and asynchronous work style, unbounded by time and location, is considered to extend the modern office work [44,46,47], enabling people with disabilities, at-home parents, and temporarily out-of-work engineers to work [1,4,39,46,65].…”

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A Data-Driven Analysis of Workers' Earnings on Amazon Mechanical Turk

Hara

Adams

Milland

et al. 2018

Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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A growing number of people are working as part of on-line crowd work. Crowd work is often thought to be low wage work. However, we know little about the wage distribution in practice and what causes low/high earnings in this setting. We recorded 2,676 workers performing 3.8 million tasks on Amazon Mechanical Turk. Our task-level analysis revealed that workers earned a median hourly wage of only ~$2/h, and only 4% earned more than $7.25/h. While the average requester pays more than $11/h, lower-paying requesters post much more work. Our wage calculations are influenced by how unpaid work is accounted for, e.g., time spent searching for tasks, working on tasks that are rejected, and working on tasks that are ultimately not submitted. We further explore the characteristics of tasks and working patterns that yield higher hourly wages. Our analysis informs platform design and worker tools to create a more positive future for crowd work. Figure 12. (a) Hourly wage distributions of seven HIT categories provided by Gadiraju et al. [25] (with an additional category Research). (b) Strip plots showing median hourly wages of HITs associated with the topical keywords in Table 4.

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A Data-Driven Analysis of Workers' Earnings on Amazon Mechanical Turk

Hara

Adams

Milland

et al. 2018

Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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266

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“…Il en va de même des changements de la structure des emplois induite par l'évolution technique (Fernandez-Macias, Hurley et Storrie, 2012). Ainsi, des recherches récentes sur les microtâches réalisées dans l'économie des plateformes ont abouti à ce constat surprenant d'un écart de rémunération entre hommes et femmes, malgré l'anonymat apparent de ce type de travail (Adams et Berg, 2017). Selon Hamid Ekbia et Bonnie Nardi, il y a néanmoins l'espoir de voir cette économie des plateformes proposer plus d'emplois offrant davantage de flexibilité et d'autonomie, au profit des travailleurs à domicile ayant des responsabilités familiales.…”

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Introduction – Travail, emploi, société: que nous réserve l'avenir?

Rani¹,

Grimshaw²

2019

Revue Int du Travail

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Résumé Partant de la matière de ce numéro spécial, les auteurs mettent en évidence les grands thèmes de recherche sur l'avenir du travail. Ils décrivent les mutations accélérées du monde du travail qui offrent des possibilités de croissance génératrice d'égalité, mais avec le risque de mal gérer le changement technique, les inégalités (en insistant sur le caractère intersectionnel et persistant des inégalités entre hommes et femmes), les chaînes d'approvisionnement mondiales et les nouvelles possibilités de dialogue social. Partant, ils formulent des recommandations pour renforcer la protection des travailleurs et les institutions qui les représentent, revoir les cadres réglementaires et les systèmes fiscaux, et enfin assurer des transitions équitables.

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“…portantes repercusiones en la desigualdad de género (Elson, 1995;Karamessini y Rubery, 2014), al igual que los cambios en las estructuras laborales inducidos por la tecnología (Fernández-Macías, Hurley y Storrie, 2012). Así, un nuevo estudio sobre el trabajo en plataformas digitales de microtareas revela datos sorprendentes sobre las diferencias salariales entre hombres y mujeres a pesar del aparente anonimato de tales estructuras (Adams y Berg, 2017). No obstante, existe la promesa, como sostienen Hamid Ekbia y Bonnie Nardi, de que la economía de las plataformas digitales acreciente las oportunidades de empleo con autonomía flexible, lo que en principio debería beneficiar a los trabajadores atados al hogar por sus responsabilidades familiares.…”

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Introducción. Trabajo, empleo y sociedad: ¿Qué esperar del futuro?

Rani¹,

Grimshaw²

2019

Revista Int Trabajo

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Resumen En la presente introducción se destacan los principales aspectos extraídos de los artículos de este número especial que cabría considerar en las investigaciones sobre el futuro del trabajo. Se presentan los cambios acelerados que afectan al mundo del trabajo como una oportunidad de orientarse hacia un crecimiento proclive a la igualdad, pero también se advierte de los peligros que plantea una mala gestión del cambio tecnológico, de las desigualdades –haciendo hincapié en el carácter persistente y transversal de la desigualdad de género–, de las cadenas mundiales de suministro y de las oportunidades de diálogo social. En vista de ello, se proponen también recomendaciones de política en las que se presta especial atención al fortalecimiento de la protección de los trabajadores y de las instituciones representativas, el replanteamiento de los marcos normativos y de los sistemas fiscales, y el logro de transiciones justas.

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When Home Affects Pay: An Analysis of the Gender Pay Gap Among Crowdworkers

Cited by 45 publications

References 17 publications

A Data-Driven Analysis of Workers' Earnings on Amazon Mechanical Turk

A Data-Driven Analysis of Workers' Earnings on Amazon Mechanical Turk

Introduction – Travail, emploi, société: que nous réserve l'avenir?

Introducción. Trabajo, empleo y sociedad: ¿Qué esperar del futuro?

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