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We develop and implement a new measure for inequality aversion: two peers are endowed with identical binary lotteries and the only choice they make is whether they want to play out the lotteries independently or with perfect positive correlation (coupling). Coupling has no other e ect than...
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In this paper we challenge the common interpretation of Rawls' Theory of Justice as Fairness by showing that this … identified a priori, and partial justice orderings derived accordingly …
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We expand upon the previous models of inequity aversion of Fehr and Schmidt [1], and Frohlich et al. [2], which assume that dictators get disutility if the final allocation of surplus deviates from the equal split (egalitarian principle) or from the subjects' production (libertarian principle)....
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This paper analyzes the microeconomic sources of wage inequality in the United States from 1967-2012. Decomposing inequality into factors categorized by degree of personal responsibility, we find that education is able to explain more than twice as much of inequality today as 45 years ago....
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We investigate the effects of inequality in wealth on the incentives to contribute to a public good when agents are inequity averse and may differ in ability. We show that equality may lead to a reduction of public good provision below levels generated by purely selfish agents. But introducing...
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important for designing social policies, there has been little research on this evaluation. To close this gap, we use justice … evaluations of income and wealth in the European Social Survey (2018/2019). We identify four types of justice profiles among the … justice and consider where injustice is perceived in the income and wealth distributions when designing policies. …
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In this paper we analyze the behavioral consequences of transparent wage distributions on workers' motivation. We study a simple gift-exchange game with one principal and three agents in two different treatments. In the first treatment, agents are not informed about their co-workers' wages and...
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problem. The flavours include inequality, risk, social welfare and justice. The issue of personal involvement in the …
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Many societies today are experiencing growing inequality in terms of wealth, income, health, education, resources or opportunities, trends that have negative effects upon well-being, trust, and motivation. We investigated whether inequalities –– particularly those perceived as fair ––...
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In this paper, we use stated satisfaction to estimate social preferences: subjects report their satisfaction with payment-profiles that hold their own payment constant while varying another subject's payment. This approach yields significant support for the inequity aversion model of Fehr and...
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