Increased efficiency through pricing in online labor markets

Journal of Electronic Commerce Research

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 58-76

  Gonen, Rica ^a   Raban, Daphne ^b   Brady, Colin ^c   Mazor, Maya ^b  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^c Auctura Ltd   (Israel)

Author keywords

Amazon mechanical turk; Crowdsourcing algorithm; Dynamic pricing; Information labor markets; Online labor markets

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897693804     PISSN: 19389027     EISSN: 15266133     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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