Empirical evidence on distributional preferences shows that people do not judge inequality as problematic per se but that they take the underlying sources of income differences into account. In contrast to this evidence, current measures of inequality do not adequately reflect these normative...

In questions inserted into the 2008 module of the German-Socio Economic Panel we ask subjects to report their income relative to different reference groups, such as fellow employees, other people in their profession, same age and same gender groups, friends, and neighbours. In addition subjects...

To address the impact of regulation on ethical concerns of consumers, we study the example of minimum wages. In our experimental market, consumers have monopsony power, firms set prices and wages, and workers are passive recipients of a wage payment. We find that the majority of consumers...

In diesem Discussion Paper wird der Zwischenbericht der Studie "Zugang zum Recht in Berlin" unter der Leitung von Prof. Dr. Michael Wrase am Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin vorgestellt. Die Studie wird seit Dezember 2020 gefördert von der Berliner Senatsverwaltung für Justiz, Vielfalt und...