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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

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Cardiovascular Consequences of Unfair Pay

Falk, Armin; Menrath, Ingo; Siegrist, Johannes; Verde, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

This paper investigates physiological responses to perceptions of unfair pay. In a simple principal agent experiment agents produce revenue by working on a tedious task. Principals decide how this revenue is allocated between themselves and their agents. In this environment unfairness can arise...

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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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Fairness in Bargaining and the Kalai-Smorodinsky Solution

Rachmilevitch, Shiran - Department of Economics, University of Haifa

A bargaining solution guarantees minimal equity if each player's payoff is at least as large as the minimum of the payoffs assigned to him by the equal-gain (i.e., egalitarian) and equal-loss solutions. The Kalai-Smorodinsky solution is the unique scale-invariant 2-person solution with this...

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Fairness, Efficiency, and the Nash Bargaining Solution

Rachmilevitch, Shiran - Department of Economics, University of Haifa

A bargaining solution balances fairness and efficiency if each player's payoff lies between the minimum and maximum of the payoffs assigned to him by the egalitarian and utilitarian solutions. In the 2-person bargaining problem, the Nash solution is the unique scale-invariant solution satisfying...

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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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