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Online Labor: Platforms can tax externalities and generate costly signals
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Thoughts on the economic and technological implications of people working online. Friday, May 24, 2013. Platforms can tax externalities and generate costly signals. The word "URGENT" should cost at least $100 per usage. 8212; Merlin Mann (@hotdogsladies) May 24, 2013. One thing that's great about platforms is that socially efficient, signal-generating Pigovian taxation. Posted by John Horton. May 30, 2013 at 4:59 PM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile.
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Online Labor: Economics for skeptical social scientists
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Thoughts on the economic and technological implications of people working online. Sunday, September 22, 2013. Economics for skeptical social scientists. I recently gave a talk at the " Training school on Virtual Work. Economics and Online Work (a slightly misleading title though - see description). PS - I should write more about the school later, but one of the main take-aways for me was how (a) pervasive the acceptance of the labor theory of value. Posted by John Horton. October 24, 2013 at 9:07 PM.
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Online Labor: November 2011
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Thoughts on the economic and technological implications of people working online. Saturday, November 26, 2011. What do contractors in machine learning charge by the hour? Question on Quora this morning: "What do contractors in machine learning charge by the hour? And I wanted to try the BeautifulSoup. First step was to reverse-engineer our search syntax and the HTML for profile rates. A contractor search of "machine learning" gives this:. Https:/ www.odesk.com/contractors? Posted by John Horton.
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Online Labor: May 2013
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Thoughts on the economic and technological implications of people working online. Friday, May 24, 2013. Platforms can tax externalities and generate costly signals. The word "URGENT" should cost at least $100 per usage. 8212; Merlin Mann (@hotdogsladies) May 24, 2013. One thing that's great about platforms is that socially efficient, signal-generating Pigovian taxation. Posted by John Horton. Tuesday, May 21, 2013. Country-Specific Minimum Wage Data, Courtesy of Wikipedia. NB: Some countries have exempti...
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Online Labor: Would a job by any other name pay as much?
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Thoughts on the economic and technological implications of people working online. Saturday, November 30, 2013. Would a job by any other name pay as much? 1) I took 20K recent hourly oDesk jobs that where the freelancer worked at least 5 hours. I calculated the log wage over the course of the contract. Incidentally, oDesk wages- -like real wages- -are pretty well approximated by a normal distribution. 2) I used the RTextTools. 3) I fit a linear model using the lasso. Using the glmnet package. Here are a s...
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Online Labor: October 2011
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Thoughts on the economic and technological implications of people working online. Saturday, October 29, 2011. Should Online Labor Markets Set a Minimum Wage? Some critics of online labor markets mistakenly believe that the platform creators have an incentive to keep wages low. Employers. Income distribution, assuming they work 40 hours a week, 50 weeks a year:. So, what's the conclusion? Are the long and short-term elasticities the same? What happens if we can get our intermediation costs down? From a wo...
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Online Labor: March 2012
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Thoughts on the economic and technological implications of people working online. Tuesday, March 6, 2012. Location of India-Based Contractors on oDesk. My favorite R package, ggplot2. Recently introduced enhanced support for choropleth maps. For those of you who know India, anything surprising/interesting here? Here's the associated R code to make this figure:. Posted by John Horton. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. Location of India-Based Contractors on oDesk.
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SCUGC 2015: The 5th Workshop on Social Computing and User-Generated Content
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SCUGC 2015: The 5th Workshop on Social Computing and User-Generated Content. Discussion Panel on Prediction Markets. June 16, 2015, Portland, Oregon. In conjunction with ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (ACM-EC 2015). Room: Oregon Convention Center (OCC),. 1st Floor, Rooms A107-A109. We solicit research contributions (both new and recently published). The workshop will also feature a discussion panel on prediction markets. Social Computing and User Generated Content. Answers. Meanwhile, th...
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