Search Results - subject:"Distributive preferences"

Technological change, task complexity, and preferences for redistribution

Hope, David; Limberg, Julian; Weber, Nina - 2023

Technological change has fundamentally transformed the US labour market in recent decades, with high-earning jobs becoming increasingly focused on nonroutine, complex tasks. We provide a first experimental test of whether fairness perceptions and preferences for redistribution differ when top...

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Prosocial risk-taking: Growing the pie or increasing your slice?

Weber, Nina - 2023

' distributive preferences. In this paper, I provide a theoretical framework and a first experimental test of how distributive … preferences are affected by potential positive externalities of risky behaviour. …

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Principal’s distributive preferences and the incentivization of agents

Cêtre, Sophie; Lobeck, Max - In: Experimental Economics 26 (2023) 3, pp. 646-672

Do principals' distributive preferences affect the allocation of incentives within firms? We run a Principal-Agent lab … workers to maximize output) and their own normative distributive preferences. We find that, despite the firm-frame and the …

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