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Unfair pay and health
Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian; Menrath, Ingo; Verde, Pablo E. - 2016
This paper investigates physiological responses to perceptions of unfair pay. We use an integrated approach exploiting complementarities between controlled lab and representative panel data. In a simple principal-agent experiment agents produce revenue by working on a tedious task. Principals...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011558641
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Cardiovascular Consequences of Unfair Pay
Falk, Armin; Menrath, Ingo; Verde, Pablo Emilio; … - 2011
This paper investigates physiological responses to perceptions of unfair pay. In a simple principal agent experiment agents produce revenue by working on a tedious task. Principals decide how this revenue is allocated between themselves and their agents. In this environment unfairness can arise...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011601022
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Like father, like son? A comparison of absolute and relative intergenerational labour income mobility in Germany and the US
Stockhausen, Maximilian - 2018
labour income mobility are larger in Germany than in the US. This indicates that economic growth has been distributed more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011919658
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Income-dependent equivalence scales and choice theory: Implications for poverty measurement
Koulovatianos, Christos; Schröder, Carsten - 2022
Equivalence Scales are a tool for removing the heterogeneity of household sizes in the measurement of inequality, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013164137
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Punching up or punching down? How stereotyping the rich and the poor impacts redistributive preferences in Germany
Diermeier, Matthias; Fischer, Madeleine L.; Niehues, Judith - 2023
Redistribution and the welfare state have been linked by academic discourse to narratives that portray specific societal groups as 'deserving' or 'undeserving'. The present analysis contributes to this scholarship in a twofold manner. First, it provides a holistic view on the beneficiaries and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014292524
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Inequality of opportunity in wealth: Levels, trends, and drivers
Graeber, Daniel; Hilbert, Viola; König, Johannes - 2023
While inequality of opportunity (IOp) in earnings is well studied, the literature on IOp in individual net wealth is … the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). Ex-ante IOp is defined as the contribution of circumstances to the inequality in net … and for a detailed decomposition of net wealth inequality into a variety of circumstances; among them childhood background …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014374802
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Unfair pay and health
Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian; Menrath, Ingo; Verde, Pablo … - 2014
This paper investigates physiological responses to perceptions of unfair pay. We use an integrated approach exploiting complementarities between controlled lab and representative field data. In a simple principal-agent experiment agents produce revenue by working on a tedious task. Principals...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010464368
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Optimal taxation under different concepts of justness
Jessen, Robin; Metzing, Maria; Rostam-Afschar, Davud - 2017
A common assumption in the optimal taxation literature is that the social planner maximizes a welfarist social welfare function with weights decreasing with income. However, high transfer withdrawal rates in many countries imply very low weights for the working poor in practice. We reconcile...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011795302
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Cardiovascular Consequences of Unfair Pay
Falk, Armin; Menrath, Ingo; Verde, Pablo Emilio; … - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2011
This paper investigates physiological responses to perceptions of unfair pay. In a simple principal agent experiment agents produce revenue by working on a tedious task. Principals decide how this revenue is allocated between themselves and their agents. In this environment unfairness can arise...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009277158
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Unfair Pay and Health
Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian; Menrath, Ingo; Verde, Pablo … - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2014
This paper investigates physiological responses to perceptions of unfair pay. We use an integrated approach exploiting complementarities between controlled lab and representative field data. In a simple principal-agent experiment agents produce revenue by working on a tedious task. Principals...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011098748