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On Equity and Public Pricing in Developing Countries
Mohn, Klaus - 1994
With address to developing countries, this paper derives some formulae for the optimal price structure for publicly provided private goods. A general equilibrium model is examined, which makes it possible to incorporate features like distributional social objectives and public profit constraints...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011967895
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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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Equity and efficiency in multi-worker firms: Insights from experimental economics
Abeler, Johannes; Altmann, Steffen; Goerg, Sebastian J.; … - 2011
workplace behavior. We focus on situations in which a single employer interacts with multiple employees. Traditionally, equity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278697
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Responsibility-sensitive welfare weights for health
Robson, Matthew; O'Donnell, Owen; Van Ourti, Tom - 2024
We estimate responsibility-sensitive welfare weights for health that facilitate inequalityand inequity-sensitive policy evaluation. In a UK general population sample, 569 online experiment participants distribute constrained resources to determine the health of hypothetical individuals...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014581233
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A survey of inclusive growth policy
Heshmati, Almas; Kim, Jungsuk; Wood, Jacob - In: Economies 7 (2019) 3, pp. 1-18
Background: Since the latter part of the 20th Century, countries have been particularly challenged by the trade-off that exists between delivering generous welfare provisions and strong economic growth. Such dynamics have stimulated a need to better understand the causes of income inequality so...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013199577