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Equity and Efficiency in Multi-Worker Firms: Insights from Experimental Economics
Abeler, Johannes; Altmann, Steffen; Goerg, Sebastian; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
workplace behavior. We focus on situations in which a single employer interacts with multiple employees. Traditionally, equity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009024592
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Desert and Inequity Aversion in Teams
Gill, David; Stone, Rebecca - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Teams are becoming increasingly important in work settings. We develop a framework to study the strategic implications of a meritocratic notion of desert under which team members care about receiving what they feel they deserve. Team members find it painful to receive less than their perceived...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959847
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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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Gift Exchange and Workers' Fairness Concerns: When Equality Is Unfair
Abeler, Johannes; Altmann, Steffen; Kube, Sebastian; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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/10004969331
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Treating Equals Unequally: Incentives in Teams, Workers' Motivation and Production Technology
Goerg, Sebastian; Kube, Sebastian; Zultan, Ro'i - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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/10005566518
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An Experimental Study of the POUM Hypothesis
Checchi, Daniele; Filippin, Antonio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
The “prospect of upward mobility” (POUM) hypothesis formalised by Benabou and Ok (2001a) finds explicit assumptions under which some individuals that are poorer than the average optimally choose to oppose redistribution policies. The underlying intuition is that these individuals rationally...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822040
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On the Measurement of Polarisation: A Questionnaire Study
Amiel, Yoram; Cowell, Frank; Ramos, Xavier - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Starting from the axiomatisation of polarisation contained in Esteban and Ray (1994) and Chakravarty and Majumdar (2001) we investigate wheather paople's perceptions of income polarisation is consistent with the key axioms. This is carried out using a questionnaire-experimental approach that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822085
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Dividing Justly in Bargaining Problems with Claims: Normative Judgments and Actual Negotiations
Gächter, Simon; Riedl, Arno - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
Theoretical research on claims problems has concentrated on normative properties and axiomatizations of solution concepts. We complement these analyses by empirical evidence on the predictability of three classical solution concepts in a bankruptcy problem. We examine both people's impartial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822103
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Human Capital versus Social Capital: A Comparative Analysis of Immigrant Wages and Labor Market Incorporation in Japan and the United States
Cornelius, Wayne A.; Tsuda, Takeyuki; Valdez, Zulema - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
The most commonly used model of labor market incorporation among immigrants in the United States analyzes their earnings largely as a function of human capital variables such as education, language competence, age, length of residence and employment experience in the receiving country. However,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822113
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Distribution of Wealth and Interdependent Preferences
Grodner, Andrew; Kniesner, Thomas J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
We examine the socially optimal wealth distribution in a two-person two-good model with heterogeneous workers and asymmetric social interactions where only one (social) individual derives positive or negative utility from the leisure of the other (non-social) individual. We show that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822152