Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/125029 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 9501
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
In two experiments, we examine the effects of employer reputation in an online labor market (Amazon Mechanical Turk) in which employers may decline to pay workers while keeping their work product. First, in an audit study of employers by a blinded worker, we find that working only for good employers yields 40% higher wages. Second, in an experiment that varied reputation, we find that good-reputation employers attract work of the same quality but at twice the rate as bad-reputation employers. This is the first clean, field evidence on the value of employer reputation. It can serve as collateral against opportunism in the absence of contract enforcement.
Subjects: 
labor
personnel
contracts
online labor markets
job search
screening
reputation
online ratings
JEL: 
L14
M55
J41
J2
L86
D82
K12
K42
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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