Publication Type
Journal Article
Version
acceptedVersion
Publication Date
2-2023
Abstract
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.
Discipline
Labor Economics | Software Engineering
Research Areas
Software and Cyber-Physical Systems
Publication
Review of Economics and Statistics
First Page
1
Last Page
23
ISSN
0034-6535
Identifier
10.1162/rest_a_01282
Publisher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press (MIT Press): 12 month embargo
Citation
ADAMS-PRASSL, Abi; HARA, Kotaro; MILLAND, Kristy; and CALLISON-BURCH, Chris.
The gender wage gap in an online labor market: The cost of interruptions. (2023). Review of Economics and Statistics. 1-23.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/8338
Copyright Owner and License
Authors
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1162/rest_a_01282