The Inequality Barometer is an online survey first conducted in Germany in 2020. It gauges individual perceptions of multiple aspects of inequality and social mobility as well as a range of policy preferences related to inequality. Responses were collected for a representative sample of the...

Our decisions often depend on our subjective perceptions of the surrounding reality and we base our perceptions on the information we have available to us. Consider for instance our assessments of a variety of societal challenges we face, from immigration to inequality. Our perceptions of the...

This paper analyzes how perceived income inequality is associated with subjective well-being. Using four waves of the "Social Inequality" module of the International Social Survey Programme, I show that the higher the level of perceived income inequality is, the lower the individual's perception...

Attitudes towards fairness and redistribution differ along socio-economic lines, resulting in political conflict. To understand the formation of such views and find levers to affect them, we study the role of attention. In a large online experiment, we investigate how subjects allocate their...

Purpose - The purpose of this study is to examine the perceptions of the human resources (HR) function from millennials and postmillennials who are either just finishing college or already in the early stages of their careers. Previous works have often revealed negative stereotypes toward HR,...

Economists have become increasingly interested in using attention to explain behavioral patterns both on the micro and macro level. This has resulted in several disparate theoretical approaches. Some, like rational inattention, assume a "top-down" model of executive optimization. Others, like...

Für eine Politik, die auf Wohlstand und soziale Mobilität abzielt, stellt die bestehende soziale und wirtschaftliche Ungleichheit eine anhaltende Herausforderung dar. Dabei wird Ungleichheit in der deutschen Bevölkerung vielfach falsch wahrgenommen: Sie wird zwar durchaus als Problem...

Happiness is strongly associated with goal attainment, productivity, mental health and suicidal risk. This paper examines the effect of satisfaction with areas of life on subjective well-being (SWB), the importance of relative perceptions compared to absolute measures in predicting overall life...

We conduct an experiment where subjects read online news articles and are shown ads for brands next to those articles. Using eye-tracking technology, we measure the attention that each individual devotes to each article and ad. Then, respondents choose between cash or vouchers for the brands...

Happiness is strongly associated with goal attainment, productivity, mental health and suicidal risk. This paper examines the effect of satisfaction with areas of life on subjective well-being (SWB), the importance of relative perceptions compared to absolute measures in predicting overall life...

Most studies examining the impact of migrants on crime rates in hosting populations are in the context of economic migrants in developed countries. However, we know much less about the crime impact of refugees in low- and middle-income countries-whose numbers are increasing worldwide. This study...

Current levels of social and economic inequalities are an enduring challenge for policymakers concerned with sustaining high levels of prosperity and social mobility. Understanding which types of inequalities people in Germany regard as important is crucial. Using survey data, this paper...

Das junge Phänomen der Pop-up-Restaurants in Berlin ist ein spannendes Beispiel für die Temporalität und Eventisierung von wirtschaftlicher Aktivität. Der Beitrag beschäftigt sich mit den Standortstrategien dieser temporären Gastronomiebetriebe. Mithilfe eines Methodenmixes aus...

Perceptions of social mobility in society are one of the most important determinants of individuals' preferences for redistribution and tolerance for economic inequalities. What shapes these perceptions is however so far little understood. In this paper, I propose and empirically test a...

Informational interventions have been shown to significantly change behavior across a variety of settings. Is that because they lead subjects to merely update beliefs in the right direction? Or, alternatively, is it to a large extent because they increase the salience of the decision they...

In einer in Bezug auf Alter, Geschlecht, Bildung und regionale Verteilung repräsentativen Online-Befragung der Bevölkerung in Deutschland haben wir im Zeitraum vom 9. April bis zum 20. April 2020, also zu einem Höhepunkt der bisherigen Einschränkungen des öffentlichen und privaten Lebens...

The perception of risk affects how people behave during crises. We conduct a series of experiments to explore how people form COVID-19 mortality risk beliefs and the implications for prosocial behavior. We first document that people overestimate their own risk and that of young people, while...

Nach der ersten in Bezug auf Alter, Geschlecht, Bildung und regionale Verteilung repräsentativen On-line-Befragung der Bevölkerung in Deutschland zu ihrem Einkaufs-, Ernährungs- und Kochverhalten sowie zur Krisenfestigkeit des Ernährungssystems während des Lockdowns im April 2020 (Busch et...

Das junge Phänomen der Pop-up-Restaurants in Berlin ist ein spannendes Beispiel für die Temporalität und Eventisierung von wirtschaftlicher Aktivität. Der Beitrag beschäftigt sich mit den Standortstrategien dieser temporären Gastronomiebetriebe. Mithilfe eines Methodenmixes aus...

This research aims to investigate the influence of perceived ease of use and perceived risk on intention to use mobile payment servicesin Pakistan via mediating role of perceived trust. A total of 320 smartphoneusers were approached using a questionnaire-based survey method and hypotheses were...

Die Risikowahrnehmung von Bürgern und Verbrauchern weicht aufgrund von psychologischen Verzerrungseffekten in vielen Fällen deutlich von den realen Risiken ab, was zu "irrationalen" Entscheidungen und ungeeignetem Vorsorgen und Versichern führen kann. Ziel der Studie ist es, solche...

Die Risikowahrnehmung von Bürgern und Verbrauchern weicht aufgrund von psychologischen Verzerrungseffekten deutlich von den realen Risiken ab. Zudem sind die meisten Menschen durch das Denken in Wahrscheinlichkeiten und hohe Zahlen überfordert. In einer (weitgehend) repräsentativen...

The subject of the paper is to investigate the hypothetical perceptions of the impact of negative externalities on the expansion and development of selected Adriatic seaports. The aim of the paper is to show that Adriatic seaports must accept and apply the integration strategy as a key business...

While the usefulness of the attention-based view in understanding the role of headquarters-subsidiary relationships in multinational companies (MNC) is well established, recent research on corporate headquarters (CHQ) has moved beyond the simplistic conception of CHQ as a unitary entity. In this...

This study offers new insights into the sustainable wine market by exploring consumers' perceptions of product attributes for six categories of wine that have characteristics of sustainability and one conventional wine. The study investigates product-attribute associations that French and...

By means of a laboratory experiment, we show that, contrary to standard consumer theory, financially equivalent balance sheet profiles may be perceived as non fungible in a controlled frictionless environment with no probabilistic attributes. A large majority of subjects indeed have a bias in...

By means of a laboratory experiment, we show that, contrary to standard consumer theory, financially equivalent balance sheet profiles may be perceived as non fungible in a controlled frictionless environment with no probabilistic attributes. A large majority of subjects indeed have a bias in...