Kölle, Felix; Sliwka, Dirk; Zhou, Nannan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
We investigate the effects of inequality in wealth on the incentives to contribute to a public good when agents are … generated by purely selfish agents. But introducing inequality motivates more productive agents to exert higher efforts and help … disadvantageous inequality. Moreover, the more inequity averse the agents, the more inequality should be imposed even by an …