# Entry barriers

`kaal:entity:entry-barriers`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 3 claims that carry the concept tag `entry-barriers`. It is a roster of what the corpus says under this term. It is **not** an adjudicated definition: no single statement here has been ruled canonical, and no first-appearance call has been made. Read the claims and judge for yourself.

## Every claim under this term

3 claims across 1 works, 2018 to 2018.

**2018**

- [3128900-013](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3128900-013) [failure/evidenced] *(failure mode)* -- Signup and approval processes in centralized micro task systems are invasive, privacy challenging, time consuming, and unclear, and they function as market entry barriers for micro task workers.
  > Finally, micro workers in centralized systems are faced with invasive, privacy challenging, time consuming, and unclear signup and approval processes that create market entry barriers for micro task workers.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralized Mechanical Turk Through Verified Reputation (2018). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3128900
- [3128900-040](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3128900-040) [failure/argued] *(failure mode)* -- Payment intermediary fees such as Paypal's are viable only for higher volume workers who can eventually avoid them, so they operate as an entry barrier against new micro task workers.
  > The fees make is only economically viable for higher volume workers who can at some point avoid the Paypal fees but create barriers to entry for new micro task workers.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralized Mechanical Turk Through Verified Reputation (2018). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3128900
- [3128900-044](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3128900-044) [failure/evidenced] *(failure mode)* -- Centralized approval processes and identity requirements for worker registration significantly limit the registration of new micro task workers.
  > According to a study by the World Bank, centralized approval processes and identity requirements for mechanical turk worker registration creates significant limitations for the registration of new workers for micro task platforms.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralized Mechanical Turk Through Verified Reputation (2018). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3128900

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