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Emotions and Political Unrest
Passarelli, Francesco - 2013
This paper formulates a general theory of how political unrest influences public policy. Political unrest is motivated by emotions. Individuals engage in protests if they are aggrieved and feel that they have been treated unfairly. This reaction is predictable because individuals have a...
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The Political Economy of Conscription
Poutvaara, Panu - 2013
Though in decline recently, military conscription is still a widely used mode of staffing armies. Since not many valid economic, social or military arguments in favor of the draft can be put forward, the question emerges why societies choose to rely on it. In this survey we explain the political...
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Globalization and Social Justice in OECD Countries
Kauder, Bjoern - 2015
Social justice is a topic of importance to social scientists and also political decision makers. We examine the … relationship between globalization and social justice as measured by a new indicator for 31 OECD countries. The results show that … countries that experienced rapid globalization enjoy social justice. When the KOF index of globalization increases by one …
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Language Rights -- A Welfare-Economics Approach
Wickström, Bengt-Arne - 2021
Distributions of language rights in multilingual settings are analyzed from a normative viewpoint in this chapter. If the cost structure of providing rights is concave in the number of beneficiaries, then a critical-mass criterion for the determination of an optimal rights structure results. It...
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Moral Judgments in Social Dilemmas : How Bad is Free Riding?
Cubitt, Robin P.; Drouvelis, Michalis; Gaechter, Simon; … - 2021
distributive justice. Here we study people’s normative views in social dilemmas, which underlie many situations of economic and …
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Measuring Unfair Inequality : Reconciling Equality of Opportunity and Freedom from Poverty
Hufe, Paul - 2018
Rising income inequalities are widely debated in public and academic discourse. In this paper, we contribute to this debate by proposing a new family of measures of unfair inequality. To do so, we acknowledge that inequality is not bad per se, but that its underlying sources need to be taken...
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Fairness in Winner-Take-All Markets
Bartling, Björn - 2018
The paper reports the first experimental study on people's fairness views on extreme income inequalities arising from winner-take-all reward structures. We find that the majority of participants consider extreme income inequality generated in winner-take-all situations as fair, independent of...
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Team or Individual : What Determines Workers' Preferred Bonus Schemes?
Torsvik, Gaute - 2011
This paper uses data from a firm with team production to investigate the association between workers' productivity, risk aversion and preferred bonus scheme (team or individual). Standard economics make a strong prediction in this case. Workers persistently producing above the team average...
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Trade, Wages, and Profits
Egger, Hartmut - 2012
This paper formulates a structural empirical model of heterogeneous firms whose workers exhibit fair-wage preferences, leading to a link between a firm's operating profits and wages of workers employed by this firm. We estimate the parameters of the model in a data-set of five European...
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Intention-Based Fairness Preferences in Two-Player Contests
Hoffmann, Magnus - 2013
We analyze equilibria of two-player contests where players have intention-based preferences. We find that players invest more effort compared to the case with selfish preferences and are even willing to exert effort when the monetary value of the prize converges to zero. As a consequence,...
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