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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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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
conducted a real effort fairness experiment where people in two of the world's richest countries, Norway and Germany, interacted …
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The paper reports the first experimental study on people's fairness views on extreme income inequalities arising from winner-take-all reward structures. We find that the majority of participants consider extreme income inequality generated in winner-take-all situations as fair, independent of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011969198
The paper reports the first experimental study on people’s fairness views on extreme income inequalities arising from winner-take-all reward structures. We find that the majority of participants consider extreme income inequality generated in winner-take-all situations as fair, independent of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011872102