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fairness principles, namely equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty, into a joint measure of unfair inequality. Two … aversion. Furthermore, we show that an exclusive focus on top incomes may misguide fairness judgments. …
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Are the United States still a land of opportunity? We provide new insights on this question by invoking a novel measurement approach that allows us to target the joint distribution of income and wealth. We show that inequality of opportunity has increased by 77% over the time period 1983-2016....
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and reciprocity for intrinsic tax morale. We find that participants in a social-norm treatment have lower tax morale … relative to a control group while participants in a reciprocity treatment have significantly higher tax morale than those in …
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There is clear evidence that fairness plays a role in redistribution. Individuals want to compensate others for their … misfortune, while they allow them to enjoy the fruits of their effort. This paper introduces fairness in a tax-benefit scheme … fairness test, whereas the Baltic and Anglo-Saxon countries (including the US) perform worst. Our paper provides a new way to …
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Many modern organisations collect data on individuals’ personality traits as part of their human resource selection processes. We test experimentally whether revealing information on personality data impacts on pro-social behaviour as measured in a one-shot modified dictator game and a public...
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Extending the power-to-take game, we explore the impact of two forces that may shape retaliation. In our 2x2 design, i) in addition to taking, the proposers can give part of their endowment to the responders, and ii) in addition to destroying their own endowment in retaliation, the responders...
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workplace may have on the degree of reciprocity between firms and workers. First, we replicate existing findings showing that in …
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Many modern organisations collect data on individuals’ personality traits as part of their human resource selection processes. We test experimentally whether revealing information on personality data impacts on pro-social behaviour as measured in a one-shot modified dictator game and a public...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012891048
workplace may have on the degree of reciprocity between firms and workers. First, we replicate existing findings showing that in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013239333
question how this finding bears on the evaluation of the democratic process with respect to its fairness. In this paper we draw …
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