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Why Women Don't Ask : Gender Differences in Fairness Perceptions of Own Wages and Subsequent Wage Growth

Pfeifer, Christian - 2018

The authors analyze gender differences in fairness perceptions of own wages and subsequent wage growth. The main finding is that women perceive their wage more often as fair if controls for hourly wage rates, individual and job-related characteristics are taken into account. Furthermore, the...

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Does Unfairness Hurt Women? The Effects of Losing Unfair Competitions

Piasenti, Stefano; Valente, Marica; Veldhuizen, Roel van; … - 2023

How do men and women differ in their persistence after experiencing failure in a competitive environment? We tackle this question by combining a large online experiment (N=2,086) with machine learning. We find that when losing is unequivocally due to merit, both men and women exhibit a...

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My Baby Takes the Morning Train : Gender Identity, Fairness, and Relative Labor Supply within Households

Lepinteur, Anthony - 2016

The current study argues that women's decision to leave the labor force at the point where their income exceeds their husbands' income may have less to do with gender identity norm (Bertrand et al., 2015) and more to do with what women think is a fair distribution of relative working hours...

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Culture as a Hiring Criterion : Systemic Discrimination in a Procedurally Fair Hiring Process

Meurs, Dominique; Puhani, Patrick A. - 2021

Criteria used in hiring workers often do not reflect the skills required on the job. By comparing trainee performance for newly hired workers conditional on competitive civil service examination scores for hiring French public sector workers, we test whether women and men with the same civil...

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Preferences for Redistribution and Pensions : What Can We Learn from Experiments?

Tausch, Franziska - 2010

Redistribution is an inevitable feature of collective pension schemes and economic experiments have revealed that most people have a preference for redistribution that is not merely inspired by self-interest. Interestingly, little is known on how these preferences interact with preferences for...

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Fairness Considerations in Labor Union Wage Setting : A Theoretical Analysis

Strifler, Matthias - 2012

We consider a theoretical model in which unions not only take the outside option into account, but also base their wage-setting decisions on an internal reference, called the fairness reference. Wage and employment outcomes and the shape of the aggregate wage-setting curve depend on the weight...

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Measuring Long-Term Inequality of Opportunity

Aaberge, Rolf - 2010

In this paper, we introduce and apply a general framework for evaluating long-term income distributions according to the Equality of Opportunity principle. Our framework allows for both an ex-ante and an ex-post approach to EOp. Our ex-post approach relies on a permanent income measure defined...

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Inequality Aversion and Risk Attitudes

Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada - 2010

Using self reported measures of life satisfaction and risk attitudes, we empirically test whether there is a relationship between individuals inequality and risk aversion. The empirical analysis uses the German SOEP household panel for the years 1997 to 2007 to conclude that the negative effect...

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Are Teams Less Inequality Averse than Individuals?

He, Haoran - 2014

We compare inequality aversion in individuals and teams by means of both within- and between-subject experimental designs, and we investigate how teams aggregate individual preferences. We find that team decisions reveal less inequality aversion than individual initial proposals in team...

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Shall We Kill or Enslave Caesar? Analyzing the Caesar Model

Jasso, Guillermina - 2021

paper presents a model of killing versus enslaving Caesar, based on a new theory which unifies justice, status, and power … of societies - justice-nonmaterialistic, status, and power-nonmaterialistic. Results cover members' gains, effects of own … killed only in a justice-nonmaterialistic society, and from the noblest of motives - to achieve equal gains for members …

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