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Choosing inequality: how economic security fosters competitive regimes
Lenger, Alexander; Wolf, Stephan; Goldschmidt, Nils - In: The Journal of Economic Inequality 19 (2020) 2, pp. 315-346
inequality perpetuated by social immobility is likely to undermine the general support for market-based systems. …
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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 …
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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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Perceived Income Justice Depends on the Economy
Liebig, Stefan; Valet, Peter; Schupp, Jürgen - In: Weekly Report 6 (2010) 24, pp. 187-192
At least half of all employees in Germany described their wages in all three survey years under consideration here - 2005, 2007, and 2009 - as just. Still, major changes occurred over this period in how people perceived their earnings. Data from the Socio- Economic Panel (SOEP) Study show that...
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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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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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Perfect competition in A.-R.-J. Turgot: A contractualist theory of just exchange
Menudo, José Manuel - 2010
This paper analyses one of Turgot's first economic essays, Plan d'un ouvrage sur le commerce, la circulation et l'intérêt de l'argent, la richesse des états (1753-4). Written prior to the appearance of physiocratic influence, it is Turgot's contribution to the movement of writing that bubbled...
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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...
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