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Moral entitlements and aspiration formation in asymmetric bargaining : experimental evidence from Germany and China
Hennig-Schmidt, Heike; Walkowitz, Gari - In: Games 8 (2017) 4, pp. 1-25
Using a unique experimental data set, we investigate how asymmetric legal rights shape bargainers’ aspiration levels through moral entitlements derived from equity norms and number prominence. Aspiration formation is typically hard to observe in real life. Our study involves 15 negotiations...
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Is increasing inequality harmful? : experimental evidence
Fehr, Dietmar - 2015
Increasing inequality is commonly associated with social unrest and conflict between social classes. This paper reports … the results of a laboratory experiment to study the implications of rising inequality on the tendency to burn others … how fair and transparent this relationship is. The findings indicate that increasing inequality does not per se lead to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011447229
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The Behavioural Consequences of Unfair Punishment
Drouvelis, Michalis - 2011
Experimental evidence from public good games with punishment suggests that punishment works when subjects assign it fairly by sanctioning non-cooperators. This paper reports an experiment in which punishment is assigned unfairly in the sense that it is not linked to individual behaviour and is...
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The importance of emotions for the effectiveness of social punishment
Hopfensitz, Astrid; Reuben, Ernesto - 2006
This paper experimentally explores how the enforcement of cooperative behavior in a social dilemma is facilitated through institutional as well as emotional mechanisms. Recent studies emphasize the importance of negatively valued emotions, such as anger, which motivate individuals to punish free...
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Cardiovascular Consequences of Unfair Pay
Falk, Armin; Menrath, Ingo; Verde, Pablo Emilio; … - 2011
This paper investigates physiological responses to perceptions of unfair pay. In a simple principal agent experiment agents produce revenue by working on a tedious task. Principals decide how this revenue is allocated between themselves and their agents. In this environment unfairness can arise...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011601022
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Wahrgenommene Einkommensgerechtigkeit konjunkturabhängig
Liebig, Stefan; Valet, Peter; Schupp, Jürgen - In: DIW Wochenbericht 77 (2010) 27/28, pp. 11-16
Gut die Hälfte der Beschäftigten in Deutschland bewertet ihr Einkommen zu allen hier betrachteten Befragungszeitpunkten - 2005, 2007 und 2009 - als gerechte Entlohnung. Bei der Beurteilung des eigenen Einkommens lassen sich aber auch deutliche Veränderungen beobachten. Die Daten des...
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Cardiovascular consequences of unfair pay
Falk, Armin; Menrath, Ingo; Verde, Pablo Emilio; … - 2011
This paper investigates physiological responses to perceptions of unfair pay. In a simple principal agent experiment agents produce revenue by working on a tedious task. Principals decide how this revenue is allocated between themselves and their agents. In this environment unfairness can arise...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009154503
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Unfair pay and health
Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian; Menrath, Ingo; Verde, Pablo E. - 2016 - Updated version
This paper investigates physiological responses to perceptions of unfair pay. We use an integrated approach exploiting complementarities between controlled lab and representative panel data. In a simple principal-agent experiment agents produce revenue by working on a tedious task. Principals...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011557349
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Social preferences under risk : minimizing collective risk vs. reducing ex-post inequality
Gaudeul, Alexia - 2016
subjects are exposed to random shocks. We find that aggregate behavior is ex-post and ex-ante inequality averse, but also that … the other. The first presentation draws attention to inequality in payoffs, the second to collective risk. We find that … conclude that ex-post inequality aversion is the primary concern in the evaluation of social lotteries while collective risk is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011476573
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Unfair pay and health
Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian; Menrath, Ingo; Verde, Pablo … - 2014
This paper investigates physiological responses to perceptions of unfair pay. We use an integrated approach exploiting complementarities between controlled lab and representative field data. In a simple principal-agent experiment agents produce revenue by working on a tedious task. Principals...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010462044