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Chapter 6 Reciprocity: Its Scope, Rationales, and Consequences
Kolm, Serge-Christophe - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 371-541). 2006
rationales: (1) balance (comparison, matching), often related to equality and fairness, or to the desire to avoid moral … associate efficiency, fairness, and the intrinsic quality of social relations. …
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Greedy and selfish? : differences in fairness preferences of prospective lawyers and managers
Mertins, Vanessa; Warning, Susanne - In: Zeitschrift für Personalforschung : ZfP 28 (2014) 4, pp. 410-431
The question of whether lawyers and managers behave selfishly or fairly has inspired discussion for a long time. Empirical evidence, however, is sparse. Using data from an experiment with 359 law and business administration students, we investigate this question empirically and provide first...
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Sensitivity of economists during market allocation
Suttner, Johannes Rolf - 2014
of fairness toward the price mechanism, whereas non-economists did not exhibit significant sensitivity. This sensitivity … fairness. The latter reflects equal treatment in terms of general perceptions, thus this could be interpreted as an increased …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010379898
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Not guilty? : another look at the nature and nurture of economics students
Haucap, Justus; Just, Tobias - 2003
value the fairness of the price system, and examine how deeply such differences are rooted in their course of studies. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010503705
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The desire to influence others : conference paper
Sadrieh, Abdolkarim; Schröder, Marina - 2014
We introduce the give-or-destroy game that allows us to fully elicit an individual s social preference schedule. We find that about one third of the population exhibits both pro-social and anti-social preferences that are independent of payoff comparisons with those who are affected. We call...
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Fair Enough? Minimum Wage Effects on Fair Wages
Koenig, Johannes - 2020
Minimum wages aim to raise wages for low-wage workers, but how do they affect fair wageperceptions? Using Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) data, we show that fair wages are basi-cally linearly related with paid wages prior to the German minimum wage introduction in2015. After the introduction, this...
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Don't tax me? Determinants of individual attitudes toward progressive taxation
Heinemann, Friedrich; Hennighausen, Tanja - 2010
, fairness considerations, economic beliefs and several other individual factors drive individual preferences for tax rate … fairness considerations. …
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Not guilty? Another look at the nature and nurture of economics students
Haucap, Justus; Just, Tobias - 2003
value the fairness of the price system, and examine how deeply such differences are rooted in their course of studies. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010301744
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Not Guilty? : Another Look at the Nature and Nurture of Economics Students
Haucap, Justus; Just, Tobias - 2003
In this paper, we examine students' attitudes towards various allocation mechanisms for a scarce resource. For this purpose, we have run a survey among officers of the German military who are enrolled in different courses of study (such as economics) at the University of the German Federal Armed...
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Driving forces behind informal sanctions
Falk, Armin; Fehr, Ernst; Fischbacher, Urs - 2005
theories of fairness and reciprocity capture these forces. We find that cooperators' punishment is almost exclusively targeted … between different fairness principles. Fairness theories that are based on the assumption that players compare their own … the defectors. Fairness theories assuming that players aim to minimize payoff inequalities cannot explain the fact that …
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