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A Survey of the Role of Fiscal Policy in Addressing Income Inequality, Poverty Reduction and Inclusive Growth
Heshmati, Almas; Kim, Jungsuk - 2014
poverty and income inequality have invited increasing volumes of research focusing on the nexus between equity and efficient …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352313
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A Survey of the Role of Fiscal Policy in Addressing Income Inequality, Poverty Reduction and Inclusive Growth
Heshmati, Almas; Kim, Jungsuk - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
poverty and income inequality have invited increasing volumes of research focusing on the nexus between equity and efficient …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884285
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Gift exchange and workers' fairness concerns: when equality is unfair
Abeler, Johannes; Altmann, Steffen; Kube, Sebastian; … - 2009
high efforts. The treatment difference instead seems to be driven by the fact that the norm of equity is violated far more … frequently in the equal wage treatment. After having suffered from violations of the equity principle, agents withdraw effort … that adherence to the norm of equity is a necessary prerequisite for successful establishment of gift-exchange relations. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269195
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Treating equals unequally: incentives in teams, workers' motivation and production technology
Goerg, Sebastian J.; Kube, Sebastian; Zultan, Ro'i - 2009
The importance of fair and equal treatment of workers is at the heart of the debate in organizational management. In this regard, we study how reward mechanisms and production technologies affect effort provision in teams. Our experimental results demonstrate that unequal rewards can potentially...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274018
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Equity and efficiency in multi-worker firms: Insights from experimental economics
Abeler, Johannes; Altmann, Steffen; Goerg, Sebastian J.; … - 2011
workplace behavior. We focus on situations in which a single employer interacts with multiple employees. Traditionally, equity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278697
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Desert and Inequity Aversion in Teams
Gill, David; Stone, Rebecca - 2014
Teams are becoming increasingly important in work settings. We develop a framework to study the strategic implications of a meritocratic notion of desert under which team members care about receiving what they feel they deserve. Team members find it painful to receive less than their perceived...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010409388
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Desert and Inequity Aversion in Teams
Gill, David; Stone, Rebecca - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Teams are becoming increasingly important in work settings. We develop a framework to study the strategic implications of a meritocratic notion of desert under which team members care about receiving what they feel they deserve. Team members find it painful to receive less than their perceived...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959847
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Gift Exchange and Workers' Fairness Concerns: When Equality Is Unfair
Abeler, Johannes; Altmann, Steffen; Kube, Sebastian; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
high efforts. The treatment difference instead seems to be driven by the fact that the norm of equity is violated far more … frequently in the equal wage treatment. After having suffered from violations of the equity principle, agents withdraw effort … that adherence to the norm of equity is a necessary prerequisite for successful establishment of gift-exchange relations. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004969331
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Equity and Efficiency in Multi-Worker Firms: Insights from Experimental Economics
Abeler, Johannes; Altmann, Steffen; Goerg, Sebastian; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
workplace behavior. We focus on situations in which a single employer interacts with multiple employees. Traditionally, equity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009024592
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Treating Equals Unequally: Incentives in Teams, Workers' Motivation and Production Technology
Goerg, Sebastian; Kube, Sebastian; Zultan, Ro'i - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
The importance of fair and equal treatment of workers is at the heart of the debate in organizational management. In this regard, we study how reward mechanisms and production technologies affect effort provision in teams. Our experimental results demonstrate that unequal rewards can potentially...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566518