the amount of monetary incentives in firms. In contrast, huge wage inequality without any promotion possibilities does not …

the amount of monetary incentives in firms. In contrast, huge wage inequality without any promotion possibilities does not …

stability of democracy. One widely studied determinant of political trust is income inequality. While the empirical finding that … societies with lower levels of income inequality have higher levels of trust is well established, the exact ways in which income … inequality affects political trust remain unclear. Past research has shown that individuals oftentimes have biased perceptions of …

Three determining factors for economic inequality are self-chosen effort, self-chosen risk, and external circumstances … setting where inequality is due to a choice over effort-provision and a choice over risk-taking. While the resulting … inequality is mostly seen as fair, around 10% of third-party redistribution decisions are in line with a fairness norm that only …

Meritocratic fairness justifies inequality when it stems from performance. Yet performance is influenced by one … generating performance inequality. In an incentivized online experiment, impartial spectators can redistribute the earnings that … generating performance inequality. …

with income inequality. In line with the fall in income inequality in the region, we document a widespread, although modest … inequality for 17 out of the 18 countries for which microdata is available. Our analysis reveals unfairness perceptions are more … correlated with relative measures of income inequality than absolute ones and that individual characteristics are correlated with …

, but previously understudied, situation where there is uncertainty about whether inequality is reflecting performance or … uncertainty about the source of inequality provides a strong egalitarian pull on the behavior of meritocrats. In addition, the …

Empirical evidence on distributional preferences shows that people do not judge inequality as problematic per se but … inequality do not adequately reflect these normative preferences. In this paper we address this shortcoming by developing a new … measure of unfair inequality that reconciles two widely-held fairness principles: equality of opportunity and freedom from …