Ultimatum Behavior, Individual Characteristics,and Moral Attitudes on the Labor Market

By running an internet ultimatum experiment subsequently to a telephone interview among a representative sample of people in working age and residency in Germany, we are able to test whether ultimatum offers correlate to socio-demographic variables or questionnaire responses. We observe that offer behavior is very similar to that of laboratory experiments and only significantly correlated to age and income of the proposer. Questionnaire responses on the other hand are not correlated to ultimatum offers.