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Global Inequality: Beyond the Bottom Billion – A Rapid Review of Income Distribution in 141 Countries
Ortiz, Isabel; Cummins, Matthew - UNICEF,Division of Policy and Practice - 2011
for development; (iii) calls for placing equity at the center of development in the context of the United Nations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010533605
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A Survey of the Role of Fiscal Policy in Addressing Income Inequality, Poverty Reduction and Inclusive Growth
Heshmati, Almas; Kim, Jungsuk - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
poverty and income inequality have invited increasing volumes of research focusing on the nexus between equity and efficient …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884285
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Justifying the Lindahl solution as an outcome of fair cooperation
Buchholz, Wolfgang; Peters, Wolfgang - 2005
equity axioms that in particular are related to the equal sacrifice principle and a nonenvy postulate as norms for … distributional equity. Fairness among agents with different preferences is taken into account by considering their marginal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261328
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Distributive fairness in an intercultural ultimatum game
Georg, Sebastian; Güth, Werner; Walkowitz, Gari; … - 2008
Does geographic or (perceived) social distance between subjects significantly affect proposer and responder behavior in ultimatum bargaining? To answer this question, subjects once play an ultimatum game with three players (proposer, responder, and dummy player) and asymmetric information (only...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263869
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Gift exchange and workers' fairness concerns: when equality is unfair
Abeler, Johannes; Altmann, Steffen; Kube, Sebastian; … - 2009
high efforts. The treatment difference instead seems to be driven by the fact that the norm of equity is violated far more … frequently in the equal wage treatment. After having suffered from violations of the equity principle, agents withdraw effort … that adherence to the norm of equity is a necessary prerequisite for successful establishment of gift-exchange relations. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269195
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Equity as a prerequisite for stable cooperation in a public-good economy: The core revisited
Buchholz, Wolfgang; Peters, Wolfgang - 2010
. Distributional equity of the individual burdens of public-good contribution is assessed by a specific sacrifice measure (the 'Moulin …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270530
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Treating Equals Unequally - Incentives in Teams, Workers' Motivation and Production Technology
Goerg, Sebastian J.; Kube, Sebastian; Zultan, Ro'i - 2007
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274004
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Treating equals unequally: incentives in teams, workers' motivation and production technology
Goerg, Sebastian J.; Kube, Sebastian; Zultan, Ro'i - 2009
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274018
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Gift exchange and workers' fairness concerns: When equality is unfair
Abeler, Johannes; Altmann, Steffen; Kube, Sebastian; … - 2009
high efforts. The treatment difference instead seems to be driven by the fact that the norm of equity is violated far more … frequently in the equal wage treatment. After having suffered from violations of the equity principle, agents withdraw effort … that adherence to the norm of equity is a necessary prerequisite for successful establishment of gift-exchange relations. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277484
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Equal opportunity equivalence in land division
Nicolò, Antonio; Perea y Monsuwe, Andrés; Roberti, Paolo - In: SERIEs - Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 3 (2012) 1/2, pp. 133-142
In this paper we look for a solution to a land division problem that could be applied to different types of disputes when the arbitrator has a very limited information about the agents' preferences. The solution must be fair and efficient under the constraint of the limited information available...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010317063