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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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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. -- tax progression ; policy preferences ; fairness ; ALLBUS …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003951035
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Gerechtigkeit und Marktwirtschaft : das Problem der Arbeitslosigkeit
Faber, Malte; Petersen, Thomas - 2007
Zwei wesentliche Perspektiven, Arbeitslosigkeit zu untersuchen, sind die der Gerechtigkeit und die der Effizienz. Unverschuldete Arbeitslosigkeit wird als ungerecht empfunden. Zugleich wird häufig argumentiert, dass Arbeitslosigkeit zu gesellschaftlichen Wohlfahrtseinbußen führt, da Arbeit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003592841
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Individual Determinants of Social Fairness Assessments - The Case of Germany
Bischoff, Ivo - 2014
In this contribution we study the determinants of how individuals assess the social fairness of a given income …: first fairness preferences, second beliefs on the sources of economic success and the functioning of democracy and third … results indicate that self-interest, beliefs and fairness preferences jointly shape fairness assessments. In addition, a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012708728
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014077234
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Perceived unfairness in CEO compensation and work morale
Cornelißen, Thomas; Himmler, Oliver; Koenig, Tobias - 2009
show that perceiving CEO pay to be unjust has economic repercussions in terms of lower work morale. -- Fairness ; Social …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003930801
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The social comparison scale : testing the validity, reliability, and applicability of the Iowa-Netherlands Comparison Orientation Measure (INCOM) on the German population
Schneider, Simone; Schupp, Jürgen - 2011
Social comparisons are an essential source of information about the self. Research in social psychology has shown individual variation in the tendency toward comparison with other people's opinions and abilities, raising the question of whether social comparisons are driven by psychological...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008842304
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Revisiting positional choice : survey evidence from Germany
Behringer, Jan; Endres, Lukas; Treeck, Till van - 2024
We conduct a survey to test for concerns about relative standing based on a large sample of the German population. Our survey approach asks respondents to choose between two hypothetical states of the world, in which they receive either a larger relative endowment or a larger absolute endowment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014490640
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Unfair wage perceptions and sleep : evidence from German survey data
Pfeifer, Christian - 2015
The author uses large-scale German survey data for the years 2009, 2011 and 2013 in order to analyze the nexus between the individual perception of being unfairly paid and measures for quantity and quality of sleep, namely, hours of sleep during workweek and during weekend, happiness with sleep,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011334499
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Unfair wage perceptions and sleep : evidence from German survey data
Pfeifer, Christian - 2015
The author uses large-scale German survey data for the years 2009, 2011 and 2013 in order to analyze the nexus between the individual perception of being unfairly paid and measures for quantity and quality of sleep, namely, hours of sleep during workweek and during weekend, happiness with sleep,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011317624