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Hidden persuaders: Do small gifts lubricate business negotiations?
Maréchal, Michel André; Thöni, Christian - 2016
Gift-giving customs are ubiquitous in social, political, and business life. Legal regulation and industry guidelines for gifts are often based on the assumption that large gifts have the potential to influence behavior and create conflicts of interest, but small gifts do not. However, scientific...
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Public officials' treatment of minority clients
Adman, Per; Taghizadeh, Jonas Larsson - 2020
The aim of this paper is to investigate the occurrence of discrimination based on ethnicity in public officials' treatment of welfare clients. Previous research has confirmed the existence of ethnic discrimination, but we argue that further investigations are needed. Field experiments in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012660602
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Do religious beliefs explain preferences for income redistribution? Experimental evidence
Neustadt, Ilja - 2010
Due to the mixed empirical evidence bearing on the economic determinants, beliefs have been at the center of attention of research into preferences for income redistribution. We elicit preferences for income redistribution through a Discrete Choice Experiment performed in 2008 in Switzerland and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010315490
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Economic well-being, social mobility, and preferences for income redistribution: Evidence from a discrete choice experiment
Neustadt, Ilja; Zweifel, Peter - 2010
In this paper, preferences for income redistribution in Switzerland are elicited through a Discrete Choice Experiment (DCE) performed in 2008. In addition to the amount of redistribution as a share of GDP, attributes also included its uses (working poor, the unemployed, old-age pensioners,...
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Is the welfare state sustainable? Experimental evidence on citizens' preferences for redistribution
Neustadt, Ilja; Zweifel, Peter - 2010
that government should reduce income inequality exhibit a negative WTP on average. The major finding is that estimated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010315586
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Testing for ethnic discrimination in outpatient health care: Evidence from a field experiment in Germany
Halla, Martin; Kah, Christopher; Sausgruber, Rupert - 2021
To test for ethnic discrimination in access to outpatient health care services, we carry out an email-correspondence study in Germany. We approach 3,224 physician offices in the 79 largest cities in Germany with fictitious appointment requests and randomized patients' characteristics. We find...
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Multi-dimensional poverty index and tackling interlocking deprivations in the Arab States
Nawar, Abdel-Hameed - 2014
-specific dimensions, indicators, weights and cut-offs. This paper analyses the 2013 round of the multidimensional poverty and inequality …
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The poor, the prosperous and the 'inbetweeners': A fresh perspective on global society, inequality and growth
Edward, Peter; Sumner, Andy - 2014
What has happened to inequality between and within countries since 1990? In this paper we explore who have been the … winners and losers from global growth since 1990. We find that falls in total global inequality in the last 30 years are … predominantly attributable to rising prosperity in China. We also identify a persistent global structure of two relatively …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335897
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Does competition justify inequality?
Bartling, Björn; Grieder, Manuel; Zehnder, Christian - 2015
Are competitive mechanisms perceived as just sources of economic inequality? Perceptions of fairness violations can … powerful buyer can trade with one of several sellers - an environment that can lead to pronounced inequality among the … inequality. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011420556
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Life satisfaction and income inequality
Verme, Paolo - 2010
Do people care about income inequality and does income inequality affect subjective well-being? Welfare theories can … predict either a positive or a negative impact of income inequality on subjective well-being and empirical research has found … such empirical heterogeneity. Using a very large sample of world citizens we test the consistency of income inequality in …
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