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Change versus choice: eliciting attitudes to fair compensations

Bone, John; Crosetto, Paolo; Hey, John D.; Pasca, Carmen - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This paper reports an experiment designed to elicit social preferences over income compensation schemes, where income differences between subjects have two independent components: one due to chosen effort and the other due to random chance. These differences can be compensated through social...

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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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Playing Fair: Rationality and Norm-guided Behavior in Games

Pasche, Markus - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002

There is robust experimental evidence that in the ultimatum game real players often prefer a fair allocation which seems to be in contrast to rational decision making. In this paper rational maximizing behavior as well as norm-guided fair behavior are two possible behavioral rules. It is argued...

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What's the monetary value of distributive justice?

Corneo, Giacomo; Fong, Christina - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

This paper develops a simple theoretical model that can be implemented to estimate the willingness to pay for distributive justice. We derive a formula that allows one to recover the willingness to pay for distributive justice from the estimated coefficients of a probit regression and fiscal...

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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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It's All About Connections: Evidence on Network Formation

Falk, Armin; Kosfeld, Michael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

We present an economic experiment on network formation, in which subjects can decide to form links to one another. Direct links are costly but being connected is valuable. The game-theoretic basis for our experiment is the model of Bala and Goyal (2000). They distinguish between two scenarios...

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