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this interpretation of the ethics of responsibility and the ethics of compensation within a broad class of economic …It is not straightforward to define the ethics of responsibility in cases where the consequences of changes in factors … environments. However, on a general basis, even this weaker version of the ethics of responsibility is not compatible with the …
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Fairness preferences fundamentally affect individual behavior and play an important role in shaping social and political institutions. However, people differ both with respect to what they view as fair and with respect to how much weight they attach to fairness considerations. In this paper, we...
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This paper investigates how people differentiate between inequality caused by talent and inequality caused by luck in a large-scale study of the US population. We establish that people distinguish significantly between inequality due to luck and inequality due to talent, even when controlling...
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This paper investigates how people differentiate between inequality caused by talent and inequality caused by luck in a large-scale study of the US population. We establish that people distinguish significantly between inequality due to luck and inequality due to talent, even when controlling...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015191523
We study how leader compensation affects public goods provision. We report from a lab experiment with four treatments … the three leader treatments, we manipulate the level of compensation given to the leader. Our main finding is that a … moderate compensation to the leader is highly beneficial, it increases the average contribution by 63% relative to a situation …
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The meritocratic fairness ideal implies that inequalities in earnings are regarded as fair only when they reflect differences in performance. Consequently, implementation of the meritocratic fairness ideal requires complete information about individual performances, but in practice, such...
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The meritocratic fairness ideal implies that inequalities in earnings are regarded as fair only when they reflect differences in performance. Consequently, implementation of the meritocratic fairness ideal requires complete information about individual performances, but in practice, such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012007093
this interpretation of the ethics of responsibility and the ethics of compensation within a broad class of economic …It is not straightforward to define the ethics of responsibility in cases where the consequences of changes in factors … environments. However, on a general basis, even this weaker version of the ethics of responsibility is not compatible with the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010315132
this interpretation of the ethics of responsibility and the ethics of compensation within a broad class of economic …It is not straightforward to define the ethics of responsibility in cases where the consequences of changes in factors … environments. However, on a general basis, even this weaker version of the ethics of responsibility is not compatible with the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005196261
Choices involving risk significantly affect the distribution of income and wealth in society. This paper reports the results of the first experiment, to our knowledge, to study fairness views about risk-taking, specifically whether such views are based chiefly on ex ante opportunities or on ex...
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