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roused ethical issues. Those issues concern fairness, justice, rightness or wrongness; as a result it can only be resolved …
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results of the first experiment, to our knowledge, to study fairness views about risk-taking, specifically whether such views …
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The question whether a socially mobile society is conducive to subjective well-being (SWB) has rarely been investigated. This paper fills this gap by analyzing the SWB effects of intergenerational earnings mobility and equality in educational attainment at the societal level. Using...
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A consensus seems to be emerging in economics that at least three motives are at work in many strategic decisions: distributive preferences, reciprocal preferences and self-interest. An important obstacle to this research, however, has been moral biases, i.e., the distortions created by...
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This paper presents theoretical and empirical analyses of experiments that test competing theories of altruism, including pure altruism (a preference for the well-being of others), warm glow (a good feeling from giving) and impure altruism (a combination of pure altruism and warm glow). These...
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perceived and the actual fairness of the income generation process affects this association. Building on a simple model of … individual labor-market participation under uncertainty, we predict that higher levels of perceived fairness cause higher levels …, income inequality is perceived more negatively with increased perceived fairness, due to the need for unexpected policy …
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Liberals and libertarians believe that justice is deeply embodied in liberalism. The famous physiocratic maxim "let … justice and equity by considering them as mechanical outputs produced by market mechanisms. The invisible hand of Adam Smith … an individual walks away from the rich to the detriment of another. A rereading of justice by Rawls empowered liberalism …
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We argue that perceived fairness of the income generation process affects the association between income inequality and … high or, respectively, low level of actual fairness. Using a simple model of individual labor market participation under … uncertainty, we predict that high levels of perceived fairness cause higher levels of individual welfare, and lower support for …
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A popular sentiment is that fairness is inexorably subjective and incapable of being determined by objective standards …. This study, on the other hand, seeks to establish evidence on unbiased justice and to propose and demonstrate a general … approach for measuring impartial views empirically. Most normative justice theories associate impartiality with limited …
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In this paper, we revisit the association between happiness and inequality. We argue that the perceived fairness of the … maximization, we predict that persons with higher perceived fairness will experience higher levels of life-time utility and are … perceived more positively with increased expected fairness. The opposite is expected for countries with low actual social …
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