This study combines novel financial-literacy data with measures of attitudes to redistribution from the British Election Study. We find a significant negative relationship between financial literacy and attitudes in favour of government intervention for income redistribution. The effect is...

The paper introduces a short scale for measuring attitudes to four fundamental principles of the just distribution of benefits and burdens in a society. The Basic Social Justice Orientations (BSJO) scale is an eight-item scale that measures agreement with the equality, equity, need, and...

Der vorliegende Untersuch erarbeitet einen diskursanalytischen Zugang zum Thema Vertrauen. In einem Grundlagenteil entwickeln wir mit Rückgriff auf Sztompkas Vertrauens- und Links Interdiskurstheorie einen Vertrauensbegriff, der von der diskursiven Konstruktion der gesellschaftlichen...

Die aktuelle intensive Form der Nutztierhaltung gewinnt weltweit an Bedeutung. Sie wird jedoch mit wachsender gesellschaftlicher Kritik und Ablehnung konfrontiert. Insbesondere in nordwesteuropäischen Ländern gibt es ausgeprägte gesellschaftliche Diskussionen um Tier- und Umweltschutz in der...

Standard economics omits the role of narratives (the stories that people tell themselves and others) when they make all kinds of decisions. Narratives play a role in understanding the environment; focusing attention; predicting events; motivating action; assigning social roles and identities;...

The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship of environmental concern of consumers with their attitude towards green products and also to identify the predictors of environmental concern. The data was generated from a researcher controlled sample of graduate and post-graduate...

Examinations on the determinants of profit sharing usually focus on objective firm characteristics. Using data from manufacturing firms in Germany, this study shows that managers' subjective attitudes towards profit sharing also play an important role in the adoption and termination of this...

Standard economics omits the role of narratives (the stories that people tell themselves and others) when they make all kinds of decisions. Narratives play a role in understanding the environment; focusing attention; predicting events; motivating action; assigning social roles and identities;...

People's fairness preferences are an important constraint for what constitutes an acceptable economic transaction, yet little is known about how these preferences are formed. In this paper, we provide clean evidence that contrast effects arising from previous transactions play an important role...

This paper shows that higher levels of perceived wage inequality are associated with a weaker (stronger) belief into meritocratic (non-meritocratic) principles as being important in determining individual wages. This finding is robust to the use of an instrumental-variable estimation strategy...

Standard economics omits the role of narratives (the stories that people tell themselves and others) when they make all kinds of decisions. Narratives play a role in understanding the environment; focusing attention; predicting events; motivating action; assigning social roles and identities;...

The aim of this paper is to determine the differences in students’ ethical attitudes depending on their gender, level of study as well as university. This study examines the attitude of sample of 670 business students, studying at five (out of seven existing) state-owned universities in the...

Background - Due to the rapid growth of the Internet and use of e-commerce in recent years, viral marketing has drawn the attention of manufacturing and service organizations. However, no research has been conducted to examine the impact of message appeal and message source credibility on...

In dieser Stellungnahme äußert sich das IAB zum Entwurf der Regierungsfraktionen CDU/CSU und SPD für ein Integrationsgesetz (Bundestagsdrucksache 18/8615) sowie zu dem Antrag "Flüchtlinge auf dem Weg in Arbeit unterstützen, Integration befördern und Lohndumping bekämpfen" der Fraktion Die...

Die aktuelle intensive Form der Nutztierhaltung gewinnt weltweit an Bedeutung. Sie wird jedoch mit wachsender gesellschaftlicher Kritik und Ablehnung konfrontiert. Insbesondere in nordwesteuropäischen Ländern gibt es ausgeprägte gesellschaftliche Diskussionen um Tier- und Umweltschutz in der...

Die Einführung des gesetzlichen Mindestlohns zum 1. Januar 2015 wurde zum Teil heftig kritisiert. Besonders der Hotellerie- und Gastronomiebereich sah gravierende Probleme auf sich zukommen. Die Erwartungen dieser Branche wurden in einer empirischen Untersuchung aufgrund einer umfassenden...

We analyse the interdependence between green attitude and equilibrium development of environmental quality in an endogenous growth model. Individuals take only part of their impact on pollution into account, hence there is a negative externality of capital accumulation on environmental quality....

Mitten in der Griechenland-Krise haben die Präsidenten der fünf wichtigsten europäischen Institutionen Vorschläge für eine weitere Integration der Europäischen Währungsunion unterbreitet. Sie beziehen sich dabei auf die Wirtschafts-, Finanzmarkt- und Bankenunion und gehen sogar so weit,...

This paper addresses the link between native attitudes and return migration. We exploit the variation in xenophobia using information on media consumption by migrants in Italy. A widely documented crime provides a quasi-experimental setting to identify the impact of Italian attitudes on...

Wie viele Kinder wünschen sich junge Frauen und Männer? Wie hoch ist der Anteil der Haushalte, die für ihre Kinder ein familienergänzendes Betreuungsangebot nutzen? Wie unterstützen sich erwachsene Kinder und ihre Eltern gegenseitig? Die vorliegende Publikation präsentiert die ersten...

It is still widely debated how non-cognitive skills can be affected by policy intervention. For example, universal music education programs are becoming increasingly popular among policy makers in Germany and other developed countries. These are intended to give children from poor families the...

The objective of this research was to study the variables affecting the consumer attitude to buy organic food that in turn affects the purchasing intention. Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) was used to explain this. The study variables include health consciousness, environmental consciousness,...