kaal:claim:3128900-038

Centralized platform fees charged to requesters for the right to submit tasks exert downward pressure on worker compensation, so the fee structure itself is what depresses pay.

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Such centralized fees add downward pressure on the platforms' worker compensation.

From

Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralized Mechanical Turk Through Verified Reputation (2018), 4.1 No Platform Fees, p. 16
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Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralized Mechanical Turk Through Verified Reputation (2018). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3128900

Holds when

centralized marketplaces such as Crowdflower and MTurk

Classification

mechanismsupport: arguedfailure: Fee driven wage suppressionfamily: inequality-and-access-dividedecentralization

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extended_by kaal:claim:3808867-034 Because decentralized platforms can remove the consumer fees that are integral to their centralized competitor...

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