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The labor market in the United States is undergoing substantial changes. Demand for traditional skills is declining. A large fraction of old manufacturing jobs were outsourced; and the new ones that have returned to the U.S. are often heavily automated with industrial robots and demand a new set of skills from the workers. …Read More
In this study we are concerned with the rational reasons for why in human-machine systems, the productivity of the man can be lower compared to the productivity of the man in the human-human systems. We explain the observation by the distortion of incentives which is required to motivate the remaining men in workplace. …Read More
Do clicks received by online news stories, independent of story quality, influence the way newspaper editors allocate journalistic resources to them, and if so, how?…Read More
An increasing number of start-ups create online and offline shared goal communities for individuals with similar goals to work towards them in the company of others. Such platforms allow individuals to connect and share effort information under the premise that it is more likely for consumers to reach their goals if they can gauge their activity in line with others’ activities.…Read More
If you’ve ever thought that the quest for more clicks is affecting the sorts of articles that get published in the media, Wharton marketing professor Pinar Yildirim wants you to know that you’re right. But it’s not quite the overarching impact that you might expect. …Read More
Social networks and media enable information diffusion in societies — and are thus at the core of collective decision making and action. The recent rise of many events which are critical for the political and corporate stakeholders, such as the Arab Spring and Occupy Wall Street, require information essential to individuals’ participation to spread among heterogeneous populations and over wide geographies.…Read More
In crowdsourcing contests, choices about contest structure affect both number and quality of entries. Funded Researcher Pinar Yildrim shares knowledge about how firms can get their ideal results by manipulating contest structure.…Read More
In this study, we examine the impact of financial incentives on participation and quality of submitted ideas in crowd-sourced innovation contests. We compare three commonly used contest designs that vary with respect to the number of winners and how the total reward is distributed.…Read More
