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economic rationales for public intervention to control obesity. We take into account equity issues as well as efficiency …
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reforms on equity and efficiency for the case of Germany. We find that a flat rate tax with a low tax rate and a low basic …
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workplace behavior. We focus on situations in which a single employer interacts with multiple employees. Traditionally, equity …
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models based on independent utilities; sharing of product market rents; equity concerns resulting from social comparisons … between employee groups; and differences in work organization as a source of union rents or quasi-rents. Only equity concerns …
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Teams are becoming increasingly important in work settings. We develop a framework to study the strategic implications of a meritocratic notion of desert under which team members care about receiving what they feel they deserve. Team members find it painful to receive less than their perceived...
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poverty and income inequality have invited increasing volumes of research focusing on the nexus between equity and efficient …
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Most conceptualisations of the bottom billion assume that "the poor" are a minority group in a state of continuous dependency, identifiable by region and demographic. Using a flow analysis (inflow and outflow) of poverty, rather than a stock analysis, we explain why poverty is more appropriately...
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high efforts. The treatment difference instead seems to be driven by the fact that the norm of equity is violated far more … frequently in the equal wage treatment. After having suffered from violations of the equity principle, agents withdraw effort … that adherence to the norm of equity is a necessary prerequisite for successful establishment of gift-exchange relations. …
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The importance of fair and equal treatment of workers is at the heart of the debate in organizational management. In this regard, we study how reward mechanisms and production technologies affect effort provision in teams. Our experimental results demonstrate that unequal rewards can potentially...
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, it seems that some countries can compensate better than others and thereby achieve higher equity in the educational …
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