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'We Aren't Racing a Fair Race': Rawls, Sen, and the Paralympic Games
Thomas, Gareth Martin; Banks, Tim - In: Sociological Research Online 18 (2013) 3, pp. 14-14
ignored in the sociological spectrum: the concept of fairness in the sporting arena. Drawing on the accounts of John Rawls … (1971) and Amartya Sen (2009), specifically in terms of considering justice as fairness, we deconstruct the principle of … fairness in the Paralympics which is currently framed within scientific discourse determining the validity of both athletes and …
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Fairness norms and tie strength in social networks — An analytical model and experimental results
Gulyás, Attila - In: Society and Economy 34 (2012) April, pp. 29-49
friendship and thus to suggest that the extent of fairness may be used as another measure for tie strength. An analytical utility … model is introduced including fairness and tie strength. The model is analyzed and an experimental method is shown to test …
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Behavioral Economics and Environmental Policy
Carlsson, Fredrik; Johansson-Stenman, Olof - In: Annual Review of Resource Economics 4 (2012) 1, pp. 75-99
cooperation, fairness, self-image, social approval, and status. Moreover, it addresses potential crowding-out effects, context …
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Asymmetrically Fair Rules for an Indivisible Good Problem with a Budget Constraint
Jaramillo, Paula - UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES-CEDE - 2012
We study a particular restitution problem where there is an indivisible good (land or property) over which two agents have rights: the dispossessed agent and the owner. A third party, possibly the government, seeks to resolve the situation by assigning rights to one and compensate the other....
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Fairness, justice, subjectivity, objectivity and goal congruence in management control systems
Cuguero, Natalia; Rosanas, Josep M. - IESE Business School, Universidad de Navarra - 2011
Management control systems are intended to motivate managers to ensure that organizational goals are accomplished. They do this by rewarding and promoting people according to certain criteria. Usually, they are designed to achieve the greatest possible goal congruence, where people pursue...
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Wage Setting in Modern Labor Markets: Neither Fair Nor Efficient
Schlicht, Ekkehart - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
The increasing wage inequality in many countries is usually seen as brought about by economic forces that drive for economic efficiency within a changing technological and social environment. Ethical evaluations of these developments diverge, yet the view that free labor markets drive to...
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Ethical responsibility and social responsibility of organizations involved in the public health system (English version)
FRUNZA, Sandu - In: Revista de cercetare si interventie sociala 32 (2011) March, pp. 155-171
The present text examines the general concept of responsibility, ethical responsibility and social responsibility with special reference to the public health system and particularly to the public health system in Romania. A central issue is the analysis of the individual ethical responsibility...
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Implicit Contracts, Unemployment, and Labor Market Segmentation
Altmann, Steffen; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
We analyze the impact of imperfect contract enforcement on the emergence of unemployment. In an experimental labor market where trading parties can form long-term employment relationships, we compare a work environment where effort is observable, but not verifiable to a situation where explicit...
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Allowing repeat winners
Huesch, Marco D.; Brady, Richard - In: Judgment and Decision Making 5 (2010) 5, pp. 374-379
Unbiased lotteries seem the least unfair and simplest procedures to allocate scarce indivisible resources to those with equal claims. But, when lotteries are repeated, it is not immediately obvious whether prior winners should be included or excluded. As in design questions surrounding...
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The Impact of Entitlements and Equity on Cooperative Bargaining: An Experiment
Bruce, Christopher; Clark, Jeremy - Department of Economics, University of Calgary - 2009
In some bargaining situations – for example, collaborative policy-making and compulsory arbitration – a third party imposes a backstop position that differs from the status quo. Axiomatic models of cooperative bargaining presume that the status quo in such cases will have no effect...
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