How do different characteristics of pay-for-performance schemes affect fairness perceptions? In two studies, we … tournament incentives. We find that pay inequality has a strong negative effect on perceived fairness. Controlling for pay …. Adding performance-dependent resource advantages or handicaps negatively influences perceived fairness. We find that …

Are competitive mechanisms perceived as just sources of economic inequality? Perceptions of fairness violations can … shading. To analyze fairness perceptions associated with competitive mechanisms, we run laboratory experiments where a single …

when such conditional fair-ness preferences are measured using the “inequality acceptance” method. Depending on the default … identify distributional preferences and default effects, and discuss best practices for measuring fairness preferences. …

The paper reports the first experimental study on people's fairness views on extreme income inequalities arising from …" fairness argument for no redistribution: the winner deserves all the earnings because these earnings were determined by his or …

inequality, such as differences in effort, luck, or opportunities. We study how fairness views and the extent of redistribution … outcome. Although third parties cannot verify cheating, we find that the mere suspicion of cheating changes fairness views of ….e., participants who never redistribute. Without cheating opportunities, libertarian fairness views dominate, while egalitarian views …