This article discusses how Brazilian platform workers experience and respond to scams through three case studies. Drawing from digital ethnographic research, vlogs/interviews of workers, literature review, we argue for a conceptualization “platform scam” that focuses on multiple forms dishonesty uncertainty. We characterize scam as structuring element the algorithmic management enacted by labor...

Funding for basic conservation research is chronically lacking. The potential for ecotourism to fund conservation research exists, but has been little explored. One branch of ecotourism with funding potential is volunteer tourism, where conservation scientists and recruiting agencies develop research projects and volunteers provide funding and labor. We examine the costs and benefits of a three...

Existing models of dynamic contracts impose that it is both optimal and feasible for the contracting parties to bind themselves together forever This paper introduces optimal termination in dynamic contracts We modify the standard dynamic agency model to include an external labor market which upon the dissolution of the contract allows the rm to return to the labor market to seek a new match Un...

Internet and Web technology already penetrates many aspects of our daily life and its importance as a medium for business transactions will grow exponentially during the next years. B2B market places provide new kinds of services to their clients. Simple 1-1 connections are being replaced by n-m relationships between customers and vendors. However, this new flexibility in electronic trading als...

Signalling refers to any activity by a party whose purpose is to in‡uence the perception and thereby the actions of other parties. This presupposes that one market participant holds private information that for some reason cannot be veri…ably disclosed, and which a¤ects the other participants’ incentives. Excellent surveys include Kreps and Sobel (1994) and Riley (2001). The classic example of ...

A total factor energy saving target ratio (ESTR) for seventeen APEC economies over 1991-2000 is computed in this paper. All nominal terms are transformed into real terms at the 1995 price level. The data envelopment analysis (DEA) approach is used to find the energy-saving target (EST) for APEC economies without reducing their maximum potential GDPs. Energy, labor, and capital are the three inp...

When person A takes an action that can be interpreted as “making an offer” to person B and B “rejects the offer,” then A may “lose face.” This loss of face (LoF) and consequent disutility will occur only if these actions are common knowledge to A and B. While under some circumstances this LoF can be rationalized by the consequences for future reputation, we claim it also enters directly into th...

When a job-seeker and an employer meet, find a prospective joint surplus, and bargain over the wage, conditions in the outside labor market, including especially unemployment, may have limited influence. The job-seeker’s only credible threat during bargaining is to hold out for a better deal, not to terminate bargaining and resume search at other employers. Similarly, the employer’s threat is t...