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investigate whether this difference in tolerating inequality is amplified by suspicious success - achievements that may arise from … cheating. Using a laboratory experiment, I exogenously vary cheating opportunities for stakeholders who work on a real effort … to different views on whether to accept inequality. Left-wing spectators substantially reduce inequality when cheating is …
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Empirical evidence on distributional preferences shows that people do not judge inequality as problematic per se but … inequality do not adequately reflect these normative preferences. In this paper we address this shortcoming by developing a new … measure of unfair inequality that reconciles two widely-held fairness principles: equality of opportunity and freedom from …
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work, agents usually make their effort choice in response to competition and monetary incentives. At the same time, they … also allow for variations in incentives in one work period, in order to analyze spillover effects to the work periods … experimental data. A short-term increase in incentives in one period should lead to higher effort in that period, and, due to …
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We develop and implement a new measure for inequality aversion: two peers are endowed with identical binary lotteries … correlation (coupling). Coupling has no other e ect than preventing outcome inequality. We implement the method in a survey in …
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We study the dynamics of capital accumulation, income inequality, capital concentration, and voting up to 1914. Based … critics. We show that changes in capital accumulation led to a rise in the capital share and income inequality, as predicted … votes for the socialists. Instead, trade unions and strike activity limited income inequality and fostered political support …
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nature of the decisionmaker affects how decisions are perceived by the affected people. We use a laboratory experiment to …
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This paper introduces a solution for the fair division of common property resources in production economies with multiple inputs and outputs. It is derived from complementing the Walrasian solution by welfare bounds, whose ethical justi?cation rests on commonality of ownership. We then apply...
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Mobility of top incomes matters for both the openness of the income elite and the share of total income that this group receives. It is thus an important complement information to the growing snapshot literature on top income concentration. I use microlevel panel data of German income tax files...
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We conduct a field experiment where we vary both the presence of a gift-exchange wage and the effect of the worker …
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Tournaments are often used to improve performance in innovation contexts. Tournaments provide monetary incentives but …-routine task and identify the importance of these behavioral aspects. In a field experiment (n>1,700 participants), we vary the … salience of team identity, social image concerns, and whether teams face monetary incentives. Increased salience of team …
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