Relying on a recent survey of more than 3300 participants from China, Germany and the US, this paper empirically … costs across countries. The ranking of the main principles for burden-sharing is identical in China, Germany and the US … seem to have a common understanding of fairness. We therefore find no evidence that citizens' (stated) fairness preferences …

The present study compares the perceptions of fairness of national earned incomes between the populations of Germany … considered too high in Germany than they are in the rest of Europe. Nearly half of Europeans believe their own gross earned … correlation is particularly strong in Germany. Respondents in Europe, and especially in Germany, generally consider it fair that …