Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 124
Cover Image
Incorporating Conditional Morality into Economic Decisions
Masclet, David - 2019
We present a framework that incorporates both moral motivations and fairness considerations into utility. The main idea is that individuals face a preference trade-off between their material individual interest and their desire to follow moral norms. In our model, we assume that moral motivation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012858837
Cover Image
Unethical Behavior and Group Identity in Contests
Benistant, Julien - 2019
Using a real-effort experiment, we study whether group identity affects unethical behavior in a contest game. We vary whether minimal group identity is induced or not, whether individuals have to report their own outcome or the outcome of their competitor, and whether pairs of competitors share...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870452
Cover Image
Equity and Equality
Duclos, Jean-Yves - 2006
as is usually thought and that it requires advanced notions of justice and well-being. The most likely ethical basis for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012779593
Cover Image
(In)Equality and (In)Justice
Jasso, Guillermina - 2016
Understanding the exact connection between inequality and justice is important because justice is classically regarded … justice, the sense of justice would not awaken to exert its moral suasion, no matter how great the inequality or how fast its … increase. We obtain exact links between economic inequality and three parameters of the justice evaluation distribution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012985278
Cover Image
Earmarking and the Political Support of Fat Taxes
Cremer, Helmuth - 2015
A fat and a healthy good provide immediate gratification, and cause health costs or benefits in the long run, which are misperceived. Additionally, the fat good (healthy good) increases (decreases) health care costs by increasing (decreasing) the probability of suffering from a chronic disease...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013015020
Cover Image
Inequality Perceptions, Distributional Norms, and Redistributive Preferences in East and West Germany
Kuhn, Andreas - 2011
redistribution and progressive taxation, and less likely to have a conservative political orientation, even conditional on having the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128215
Cover Image
Incentive Effects of Risk Pooling, Redistributive and Savings Arrangements in Unemployment Benefit Systems : Evidence from a Job-Search Model for Brazil
Robalino, David A. - 2011
We develop a model of job search and use it to assess the effects that the Brazilian unemployment benefit system has on exit rates from unemployment. In our setup, unemployed workers receive job offers from the formal and informal sectors and decide whether to accept them or wait. Only jobs in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130452
Cover Image
Redistributive Politics and Market Efficiency : An Experimental Study
Großer, Jens - 2011
' policy choices by transferring money to them. We observe very high levels of redistribution – even when transfers to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013134222
Cover Image
Equality of Opportunity and Redistribution in Europe
Dunnzlaff, Lina - 2010
The concept of equality of opportunity (EOp) goes back to Roemer (1993, 1998) who argues that a society shall guarantee its members equal access to advantage regardless of their circumstances, while holding them responsible for turning that access into actual advantage by the application of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013134930
Cover Image
Relative Income, Redistribution and Well-Being
Fitzroy, Felix R. - 2010
of redistribution: a universal basic income, and a categorical unemployment benefit. Well-being depends on own …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136943