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Cooperation, Punishment and Organized Crime : A Lab-in-The-Field Experiment in Southern Italy

Nese, Annamaria - 2016

This paper reports the results of an experimental investigation which allows a deeper insight into the nature of social preferences amongst organized criminals and how these differ from "ordinary" criminals on the one hand and from the non‐criminal population in the same geographical area on...

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Social Preferences in Childhood and Adolescence : A Large-Scale Experiment

Sutter, Matthias - 2010

less prominent motivating force of allocation decisions. At the same time, efficiency concerns increase in importance for …

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Inequality Indices as Tests of Fairness

Kanbur, Ravi - 2017

Standard income inequality indices can be interpreted as a measure of welfare loss entailed in departures from equality … of outcomes, for egalitarian social welfare functions defined on the distribution of outcomes. But such a welfare …

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Treating Equals Unequally : Incentives in Teams, Workers' Motivation and Production Technology

Goerg, Sebastian J. - 2015

The importance of fair and equal treatment of workers is at the heart of the debate in organizational management. In this regard, we study how reward mechanisms and production technologies affect effort provision in teams. Our experimental results demonstrate that unequal rewards can potentially...

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Social Interactions in the Labor Market

Grodner, Andrew - 2011

We examine theoretically and empirically social interactions in labor markets and how policy prescriptions can change dramatically when there are social interactions present. Spillover effects increase labor supply and conformity effects make labor supply perfectly inelastic at a reference group...

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The Importance of Peers for Compliance with Norms of Fair Sharing

Gächter, Simon - 2016

A burgeoning literature in economics has started examining the role of social norms in explaining economic behavior. Surprisingly, the vast majority of this literature has studied social norms in asocial decision settings, where individuals are observed to act in isolation from each other. In...

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'Fair' Welfare Comparisons with Heterogeneous Tastes : Subjective Versus Revealed Preferences

Akay, Alpaslan - 2017

Multidimensional welfare analysis has recently been revived by money-metric measures based on explicit fairness … choices (subjective well-being). We question whether using one or the other method makes a difference for welfare analysis … decisions or with income- leisure satisfaction. For different ethical priors regarding work preferences, we compare the welfare …

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Measuring Unfair Inequality : Reconciling Equality of Opportunity and Freedom from Poverty

Hufe, Paul - 2018

Rising income inequalities are widely debated in public and academic discourse. In this paper, we contribute to this debate by proposing a new family of measures of unfair inequality. To do so, we acknowledge that inequality is not bad per se, but that its underlying sources need to be taken...

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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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Fair and Unfair Income Inequalities in Europe

Checchi, Daniele - 2010

This paper analyses the extent of income inequality and opportunity inequality in 25 European countries. The present work contributes to understanding the origin of standard income inequality, helping to identify potential institutional setups that are associated to opportunity inequality. We...

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