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Fairness spillovers: The case of taxation
Cornelißen, Thomas; Himmler, Oliver; Koenig, Tobias - 2012
that such 'fairness spillovers' can incur large economic costs: A belief that there is unfairness in taxation in the sense …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010323868
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Fairness spillovers: The case of taxation
Cornelissen, Thomas; Himmler, Oliver; König, Tobias - 2010
that such 'fairness spillovers' can incur large economic costs: A belief that there is unfairness in taxation in the sense …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275016
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Inequality indices as tests of fairness
Kanbur, Ravi; Snell, Andy - 2017
statistical tests for fairness within well-defined income distribution generating processes and a well specified notion of … fairness. We find that the likelihood ratio (LR) test for fairness versus unfairness within two such processes are proportional … their values differently – to compare them to critical values for a test of the null hypothesis of fairness, or to use them …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011641764
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The second paycheck to keep up with the Joneses : relative income concerns and labor market decisions of married women
Park, Yongjin - 2005
This paper investigates whether one's effort to keep up with the Joneses has any effect on labor supply behavior. We provide a simple model and empirical evidence that labor supply decisions of married women are influenced by relative as well as absolute income of their husbands. We find, after...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011527439
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Lower and upper bounds of unfair inequality : theory and evidence for Germany and the US
Niehues, Judith; Peichl, Andreas - 2011
Previous estimates of unfair inequality of opportunity (IOp) are only lower bounds because of the unobservability of the full set of endowed circumstances beyond the sphere of individual responsibility. In this paper, we suggest a new estimator based on a fixed effects panel model which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009269249
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Luck, choice and responsibility : an experimental study of fairness views
Möllerström, Johanna; Reme, Bjørn-Atle; Sørensen, … - 2014
inequalities, but many follow an interior allocation rule previously unaccounted for by the fairness views in the literature. These …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010393298
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"It's not about the money. It's about sending a message!" : unpacking the components of revenge
Molńar, András; Chaudhry, Shereen J.; Loewenstein, … - 2020
We examine whether belief-based preferences - caring about what transgressors believe - play a crucial role in punishment decisions: Do punishers want to make sure that transgressors understand why they are being punished, and is this desire to affect beliefs often prioritized over distributive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012166019
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Social Capital, Social Contracts, and Public Policy in the United States
Tanimura, Steven - 2020
The underlying social framework in which we live seems to becoming less social. The connections we have between individuals, businesses, and government has become impersonal and distant. If this is a valid trend of society then our connection with our elected officials may be a lot less...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014091132
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A PUSH TO GEORGE ( IN ) BUSH
DR.VSR.SUBRAMANIAM - EconWPA - 2005
An imperative need has arisen to provide a Constructive push to the President Bush. American population, Corporate units, Expatriates and all nations with their currency related to US $, are not happy in the current $ dipping situation. Even the currencies of poor nations are galloping upward in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556940
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What´s the monetary value of distributive justice
Corneo, Giacomo; Fong, Christina M. - 2007
This paper proposes a model that can be implemented to estimate the willingness to pay for distributive justice, defined as distribution according to desert. We derive a formula that allows one to recover the willingness to pay for distributive justice from fiscal data and the estimated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299119