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Inequality and happiness: When perceived social mobility and economic reality do not match

Bjornskov, Christian; Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina AV; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

In this paper, we revisit the association between happiness and inequality. We argue that the interaction between the …, income inequality is perceived more negatively with increased perceived fairness, due to the need for unexpected policy …

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Inequality and happiness: When perceived social mobility and economic reality do not match.

Bjornskov, Christian; Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina A.V.; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

We argue that perceived fairness of the income generation process affects the association between income inequality and … income redistribution. Income inequality is predicted to have a more favorable impact on subjective wellbeing for individuals … differences in individual tolerance for income inequality, and the predicted influence of actual fairness. …

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On the relation between income inequality and happiness: Do fairness perceptions matter?

Bjornskov, Christian; Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina AV; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

In this paper, we revisit the association between happiness and inequality. We argue that the perceived fairness of the … less in favor of income redistribution. In societies with a high level of actual social mobility, income inequality is …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008557077

On the relation between income inequality and happiness: Do fairness perceptions matter?

Bjornskov, Christian; Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina AV; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008557081

Distribution of responsibility, ability and competition

Graafland, J.J. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003

This paper considers the distribution of responsibility for prevention of negative social or ecological effects of production and consumption. Responsibility is related to ability and ability depends on welfare. An increase in competition between Western companies depresses their profitability,...

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Just luck: an experimental study of risk taking and fairness

Cappelen, Alexander W; Konow, James; Sorensen, Erik O; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Choices involving risk significantly affect the distribution of income and wealth in society. This paper reports the results of the first experiment, to our knowledge, to study fairness views about risk-taking, specifically whether such views are based chiefly on ex ante opportunities or on ex...

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Double Standards: Social Preferences and Moral Biases

Croson, Rachel; Konow, James - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

A consensus seems to be emerging in economics that at least three motives are at work in many strategic decisions: distributive preferences, reciprocal preferences and self-interest. An important obstacle to this research, however, has been moral biases, i.e., the distortions created by...

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Narrowing the field in elections: the next-two rule

Brams, Steven J.; Kilgour, D. Marc - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

We suggest a new approach to narrowing the field in elections, based on the deservingness of candidates to be contenders in a runoff, or to be declared one of several winners. Instead of specifying some minimum percentage (e.g., 50) that the leading candidate must surpass to avoid a runoff...

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Guilt causes equal or unequal division in alternating-offer bargaining

Kohler, Stefan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Parties in a bargaining situation may perceive guilt, a utility loss caused by receiving the larger share that is modeled in some social preferences. I extend Rubinstein (1982)'s solution of the open-ended alternating-offer bargaining problem for self-interested bargainers to a game with equally...

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Inequality aversion causes equal or unequal division in alternating-offer bargaining

Kohler, Stefan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

patient bargainers that exhibit similar degrees of inequality aversion. Inequality-averse bargainers may perceive envy if …. If the perceived guilt is strong, then the inequality-averse bargainers split the bargaining surplus equally regardless … impact than weak guilt. Similarly inequality-averse bargainers agree on the Rubinstein division if the strength of envy …

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