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The gender wage gap in an online labour market: the cost of interruptions
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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, I 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 statistically and economically significant driver of this wage gap. Women are more likely to interrupt their working time on the platform with consequences for their t...
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- Publication status:
- Published
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- Publisher:
- University of Oxford Publisher's website
- Article number:
- 944
- Series:
- Department of Economics Discussion Paper Series
- Publication date:
- 2021-06-30
- Paper number:
- 944
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- Language:
- English
- Pubs id:
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1191577
- Local pid:
- pubs:1191577
- Deposit date:
- 2021-08-18
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- Copyright holder:
- Abi Adams-Prassl
- Copyright date:
- 2021
- Rights statement:
- © 2021, The Author(s).
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