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Inefficient but effective? : a field experiment on the effectiveness of direct and indirect transfer mechanisms
Koppel, Hannes (contributor);  … - 2008
We conduct a field experiment on direct and indirect transfer mechanisms. It shows that people are willing to donate significantly more if the donation is indirect, i.e., it is tied to the purchase of a good with a price premium, rather than made directly. This points to an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003781040
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Inefficient but effective? : a field experiment on the effectiveness of direct and indirect transfer mechanism
Koppel, Hannes; Schulze, Günther G. - 2008
We conduct a field experiment on direct and indirect transfer mechanisms. It shows that people are willing to donate significantly more if the donation is indirect, i.e., it is tied to the purchase of a good with a price premium, rather than made directly. This points to an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003864434
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Meltzer-Richard and Social Mobility Hypothesis : Revisiting the Income-Redistribution Nexus Using German Choice Data
Pfarr, Christian - 2012
Whereas the supply of redistribution is relatively easy to measure, the determinants of the demand for redistribution are controversially discussed in international literature. Economic theory typically models redistribution as the result of a voting mechanism; this is only inadequately...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096267
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You Can't Always Get What You Want - East and West Germans' Attitudes and Preferences Regarding the Welfare State
Pfarr, Christian - 2017
More than twenty years after the fall of the iron curtain, do citizens from former Communist countries still exhibit attitudes and preferences with regard to the welfare state and income redistribution that differ from those in the West? This paper seeks to answer this question for Germany after...
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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012665388
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Wage Mobility in East and West Germany
Riphahn, Regina T.; Schnitzlein, Daniel - 2011
. Therefore, wage mobility does not balance recent increases in cross-sectional wage inequality. We apply RIF (recentered …
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Income Satisfaction Inequality and its Causes
Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; Praag, Bernard M.S. Van - 2002
In this paper, the concept of Income Satisfaction Inequality is operationalized on the basis of individual responses to … analogue of the objective income concept and includes objective income inequality as a special case. The paper introduces a … method to decompose Income Satisfaction Inequality according to the contributions from variables such as income, education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325001
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Well-Being Inequality and Reference Groups - An Agenda for New Research
van Praag, Bernard M.S. - 2010
well-being is much less investigated. It is argued that the concept of well-being inequality cannot be properly defined … concept of inequality in happiness or SWB. Finally, we plead for an extension of the present happiness paradigm by setting up …
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Immer mehr Erwerbstätige empfinden ihr Einkommen als ungerecht
Liebig, Stefan; Schupp, Jürgen - In: DIW Wochenbericht 75 (2008) 31, pp. 434-440
Seit einiger Zeit mehren sich die Stimmen, die für Deutschland eine "soziale Schieflage" konstatieren und im Namen sozialer Gerechtigkeit Korrekturen fordern. So haben die Reallöhne in den vergangenen Jahren stagniert, teilweise sind sie sogar zurückgegangen. Zugleich kann eine Zunahme von...
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