Arbeit und Fairness – zum Gerechtigkeitsempfinden von Beschäftigten
Der Arbeitsmarkt unterscheidet sich von vielen anderen Märkten dadurch, dass die Akteure in ein Netz persönlicher Beziehungen eingebunden sind. Fairness, Vertrauen und Loyalität spielen eine wichtige Rolle. Unternehmen und Beschäftigte sind nicht nur "Homo Oeconomicus", sie lassen sich bei ihren Entscheidungen auch von Gerechtigkeitsvorstellungen leiten. Was aber als fair und gerecht empfunden wird, unterliegt vielfältigen Einflüssen. Dieses Themendossier erschließt die wichtigsten Aspekte der wissenschaftlichen Diskussion um Fairness, Gerechtigkeit, Markt und Moral auf dem Arbeitsmarkt.
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Wie fair empfinde ich meinen Lohn? Das Arbeitsumfeld macht den Unterschied (2025)
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Brüggemann, Ole, Thomas Hinz, Julia Lang, Susanne Strauß & Nick Zubanov (2025): Wie fair empfinde ich meinen Lohn? Das Arbeitsumfeld macht den Unterschied. In: IAB-Forum H. 03.02.2025 Nürnberg. DOI:10.48720/IAB.FOO.20250203.01
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"Dass eine faire Entlohnung Auswirkungen auf die Arbeitszufriedenheit und auf den Verbleib im Unternehmen haben kann, ist den meisten Menschen bewusst. Welche Rolle das Arbeitsumfeld bei der Bewertung des eigenen Lohnes spielt, ist jedoch weniger bekannt. Anhand einer deutschlandweiten Befragung von Beschäftigten in größeren Firmen hat ein Forschungsteam der Universität Konstanz und des IAB drei relevante Aspekte des Arbeitsumfeldes untersucht: ob Beschäftigte über ihre Löhne sprechen, ob nach Tarifvertrag entlohnt wird und ob es Betriebsräte als Anlaufstelle für Fragen der fairen Entlohnung gib" (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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They don’t really care about us: the impact of perceived vertical pay disparity on employee well-being (2025)
Filippi, Silvia ; Suitner, Caterina ; Peters, Kim ; Feraco, Tommaso ; Maass, Anne ; Salvador Casara, Bruno Gabriel ;Zitatform
Filippi, Silvia, Bruno Gabriel Salvador Casara, Kim Peters, Anne Maass, Tommaso Feraco & Caterina Suitner (2025): They don’t really care about us: the impact of perceived vertical pay disparity on employee well-being. In: European journal of work and organizational psychology, Jg. 34, H. 1, S. 42-57. DOI:10.1080/1359432x.2024.2415127
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"The gap in pay between those at the top of organizations and other organizational members continues to grow. In this paper, we tested the link between the perception of this vertical pay gap and people’s well-being at work. Specifically, we tested whether greater perceptions that pay is unequally distributed couples with people’s feelings that they are not valued (Lind & Tyler, 1988), eroding their sense of identification and well-being. In two cross-sectional surveys, Study 1a and 1b (N = 1335), we found that the more US and Italian workers perceived that there was a large vertical pay gap at work, the greater their tendency to feel that their organization was not concerned about their welfare. They were also less satisfied in their jobs and less likely to identify with their organization. In two pre-registered experiments, Study 2a and 2b (N total = 785), we manipulated the vertical pay gap in hypothetical organizations and found that when the pay gap was large (versus small) participants felt that the organization was less concerned about their welfare. They also expected to be less satisfied in their jobs, to identify less with the organization, and to experience greater work-life interference." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Perceived fairness and legitimacy of parental workplace discrimination (2025)
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Gerich, Joachim & Martina Beham-Rabanser (2025): Perceived fairness and legitimacy of parental workplace discrimination. In: Community, work & family, S. 1-27. DOI:10.1080/13668803.2025.2453175
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"Parental discrimination has been shown to be related to several risks, including impaired health, increased job stress, and decreased job satisfaction, which calls for increased awareness of parental discrimination. This paper analyzes fairness and legitimacy judgments of unequal treatment based on parental status at work and the antecedents that influence these judgments. Stereotypes of symbolic vilification that suggest lower commitment due to caring responsibilities, and symbolic amplification, which refers to rational economic organizational needs, are expected to rationalize discrimination. Moreover, we expect specific values and ideologies to be related to judgments of fairness and legitimacy, mediated by resonance with symbolic vilification and amplification. Analyses are based on survey data from a sample of employees aged between 20 and 45 years (n = 376). Respondents' evaluations of parental discrimination were measured using two fictional cases. The results suggest that greater acceptance of vilifying and amplifying justifications is triggered by a stronger preference for the ideal worker norm and traditional gender role expectations. Women tend to view discrimination as more unfair and illegitimate than men, while men's judgments are more strongly driven by economic reasoning." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Is My Wage Fair? : Validating Fairness Perceptions Among Women and Men (2024)
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Diehl, Claudia, Julia Lang, Susanne Strauß & Ole Brüggemann (2024): Is My Wage Fair? : Validating Fairness Perceptions Among Women and Men. (Working Paper Series / Universität Konstanz, Cluster of Excellence 'The Politics of Inequality' 33), Konstanz, 33 S. DOI:10.48787/kops/352-2-ic19t4vrxlek9
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"This paper examines gender differences in perceptions of the fairness of one's own pay. Theoretically, we draw on two so far separate strands of literature, on women's alleged greater tolerance for lower wages ("contented female worker paradox"), and on perceived discrimination among ethnic minorities ("integration paradox"). Empirically, we depart from previous studies by not simply assessing whether women are as likely as men to perceive their pay as unfair. Instead, we use an innovative methodology based on linked employer-employee data from about 500 German firms. This makes it possible to validate subjective perceptions of (un)fair pay by comparing them to the actual (un)fairness of someone's pay. The latter is measured as the difference between one's own pay and the predicted pay of comparable others with the same individual, job, and firm-related characteristics. Overall, women are as likely as men to perceive a fair wage as unfair – or an unfair wage as fair. However, university-educated women are somewhat less likely than men to perceive their pay as fair when they earn less than comparable employees. They might be more aware of the societal debate about gender discrimination and "aim higher" in setting their aspirations for appropriate rewards for their skills." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Perceived income inequality, perceived unfairness and subjective social status in Europe (2024)
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Hajdu, Gábor (2024): Perceived income inequality, perceived unfairness and subjective social status in Europe. In: Socio-economic review, S. 1-23. DOI:10.1093/ser/mwae055
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"This article examines the relationship between perceived income inequality, the perceived unfairness of income distribution (discrepancy between an individual’s perceived and preferred levels of income inequality) and subjective social status. Using four waves of the ‘Social Inequality’ module of the International Social Survey Programme (28 European countries, 70 000 individuals) and an empirical strategy that controls for a rich set of objective measures of social status and the objective level of income inequality, the results show that both perceived inequality and perceived unfairness are negatively associated with subjective social status. Moreover, perceived unfairness moderates the relationship between perceived inequality and subjective social status. Specifically, the negative effects are larger for individuals who perceive high levels of unfairness than for those with lower levels of perceived unfairness. The analysis also provides evidence that the association between perceived inequality and subjective social status is stronger for individuals with lower income, lower education, and those living in Eastern European countries." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Caring in the Gig Economy: A Relational Perspective of Decent Work (2024)
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Khan, Maria Hameed, Jannine Williams, Penny Williams & Robyn Mayes (2024): Caring in the Gig Economy: A Relational Perspective of Decent Work. In: Work, Employment and Society, Jg. 38, H. 4, S. 1107-1127. DOI:10.1177/09500170231173586
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"The rapidly expanding gig economy has been criticized for creating precarious and indecent working conditions. These critiques draw on decent work debates centred on employment classification, regulation and platform fairness, with less focus on the interactions between workers, platforms and clients, which are central to the experience of platform-mediated work. This article adopts a worker-centric relational perspective to explore decent work in the gig economy. Drawing on the experiences of workers in platform-mediated domestic care work, the insights from this study highlight the importance of social interactions and relationships, using an ethics of care lens, to elucidate how relational aspects shape workers' experiences. The findings reveal platform workers centre mutuality of interests, responsiveness and reciprocity, attentiveness and solidarity to maintain a balance of care (care-for-self and care-for-others) when negotiating platform-mediated care work. This article contributes relationality as a key dimension of decent work currently overlooked in studies exploring gig work arrangements." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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How White Workers Navigate Racial Difference in the Workplace: Social-Emotional Processes and the Role of Workplace Racial Composition (2024)
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Nelson, Jennifer L. & Tiffany D. Johnson (2024): How White Workers Navigate Racial Difference in the Workplace: Social-Emotional Processes and the Role of Workplace Racial Composition. In: Work and occupations, Jg. 51, H. 3, S. 362-407. DOI:10.1177/07308884231176833
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"Research on racialized emotions and racialized organizations has begun to inform how we understand social interactions in the workplace and their implications for racial inequality. However, most research to date focuses on the experiences and coping strategies of racial minority workers, especially when confronted with instances of racial prejudice and discrimination. We extend research on racialized emotions in the workplace by mapping the stages of belonging/unbelonging white workers go through when they encounter instances of racial discomfort or perceived prejudice in the workplace. This is an important contribution to the study of race and work because existing research suggests the deleterious effects for people of color when white people experience negative emotions such as threat, fear, and anxiety in interracial encounters. Drawing on interview data with 56 white teachers in a metropolitan area in the U.S. Southeast, we document a process of racialized belonging. This is a process whereby white workers experienced varying degrees of surprise, confusion, frustration, and fear resulting from interracial—and some intraracial—experiences with coworkers as well as students. We note how the process is informed by racialized imprinting prior to workplace entry and followed by racialized emotions and racialized coping. Racial composition of the workplace also played a role, though the process looked similar across contexts. We argue that by accounting for white workers’ prior life experiences as well as organizations’ involvement in accommodating their emotional expectations, the way white workers behave when race becomes salient to them can be better understood and addressed." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Fairness, expectations and life satisfaction: evidence from Europe (2024)
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Nicolitsas, Daphne (2024): Fairness, expectations and life satisfaction: evidence from Europe. In: Empirica, Jg. 51, H. 2, S. 313-349. DOI:10.1007/s10663-023-09602-y
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"This study aims to investigate whether individual beliefs about the fairness of society can account for differences in life satisfaction. Fairness here encompasses both procedural and distributive justice. The paper uses fifth-round individual-level data from the European Social Survey (ESS). The round in question contains information that can be used as a proxy for procedural justice, in the form of individual assessment of how the courts operate in their country. It also contains variables that will serve as a proxy for distributive justice. To that end we use survey information on individual assessment of whether pay is appropriate as well as a variable measuring the gap between received and expected pay. The latter is constructed using pay information and individuals’ personal demographic and productive features, as well as information on the characteristics of their workplace. The hypothesis that life satisfaction is impacted by perceived unfairness cannot be rejected. Furthermore, we find that dissatisfaction with pay increases when individuals have a negative view of procedural justice." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © Springer-Verlag) ((en))
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Sorting and Wage Premiums in Immoral Work (2024)
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Schneider, Florian H., Fanny Brun & Roberto A. Weber (2024): Sorting and Wage Premiums in Immoral Work. In: The Review of Economics and Statistics, S. 1-46. DOI:10.1162/rest_a_01536
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"We use surveys, laboratory experiments and administrative data to study how heterogeneity in the perceived immorality of work and in workers' aversion to acting immorally impact labor market outcomes. Immoral work is associated with higher wages, both in administrative data and in causal experimental evidence. Individuals more willing to engage in immoral conduct find employment in firms and industries perceived as immoral less aversive and have higher employment rates in immoral work in the laboratory. These phenomena appear to be driven by impure social motives, reflecting a desire not to be involved with immoral work, rather than by consequentialist concerns." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © MIT Press Journals) ((en))
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Who Perceives Lower Wages for Women to be Fair? How Perceptions of the Fairness of Men’s and Women’s Wages Vary by Firm and Workplace Characteristics (2024)
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Strauß, Susanne, Ole Brüggemann & Julia Lang (2024): Who Perceives Lower Wages for Women to be Fair? How Perceptions of the Fairness of Men’s and Women’s Wages Vary by Firm and Workplace Characteristics. (Working Paper Series / Universität Konstanz, Cluster of Excellence 'The Politics of Inequality' 29), Konstanz, 33 S. DOI:10.48787/kops/352-2-sofyhpevr9ys3
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"Previous research has shown that gender pay gaps are perceived as fair or justified, not only by men but also by women. In this paper we analyse whether this gender bias in the evaluation of fair wages still persists and whether the organizational context has an impact on fairness perceptions. We use unique data from a vignette study that was part of a representative online survey of 5,556 employees in 532 larger firms (> 100 employees) in Germany which are merged to administrative data. This allows us to consider different contextual factors at both the workgroup level and the firm level. In contrast to older studies we find that women tend to evaluate wages of female workers as unfairly too low. Moreover, the perception of (un)fair wages depends on the organizational context. Female supervisors and collective bargaining agreements in firms increase women’s awareness for other women’s unfairly too low wages, whereas an exchange about wages with co-workers affects the fairness perceptions of both male and female workers." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Gender differences in fairness evaluations of own earnings in 28 European countries (2023)
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Adriaans, Jule & Matteo Targa (2023): Gender differences in fairness evaluations of own earnings in 28 European countries. In: European Societies, Jg. 25, H. 1, S. 107-131. DOI:10.1080/14616696.2022.2083651
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"Women tend to evaluate their own pay more favorably than men. Contented women are speculated to not seek higher wages, thus the ‘paradox of the contented female worker’ may contribute to persistent gender pay differences. We extend the literature on gender differences in pay evaluations by investigating fairness evaluations of own earnings and underlying conceptions of fair earnings, providing a closer link to potential subsequent wage demands than previous literature. Using European Social Survey (2018/2019) data, we find no evidence that women evaluate their own earnings more favorably than men. In 15 out of the 28 analyzed countries, women actually report more intense levels of perceived unfairness. Studying fair markups on unfair earnings, i.e. the relative distance between the earnings received and earnings considered fair, we find that women report the same, if not lower, fair markups compared to men in most countries; thus indicating limited potential for perceived unfairness as a driving force to reduce the gender pay gap in Europe." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Fairness of earnings in Europe: the consequences of unfair under- and overreward for life satisfaction (2023)
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Adriaans, Jule (2023): Fairness of earnings in Europe: the consequences of unfair under- and overreward for life satisfaction. In: European Sociological Review, Jg. 39, H. 1, S. 118-131. DOI:10.1093/esr/jcac044
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"A large percentage of workers in Europe perceive their earnings to be unfairly low. Such perceptions of unfairness can have far-reaching consequences, ranging from low satisfaction to poor health. To gain insight into the conditions that can attenuate or amplify these adverse consequences, comparative research on the role of country contexts in shaping responses to perceived unfairness is needed. Furthermore, justice theory proposes that both types of perceived unfairness - underreward and overreward - cause distress, but evidence on overreward from representative survey data is scarce and laboratory studies have produced mixed results. Data from the European Social Survey (collected in 2018/2019) offer a means of addressing both of these gaps in the research. Studying the association between perceived fairness of personal earnings and life satisfaction in a cross-section of 29 European countries, I find that both underreward and overreward are associated with lower life satisfaction. This relationship is more pronounced in countries where the equity norm is strongly legitimized and weaker in countries where the trade union density is high." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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The Impact of Relative CEO Pay on Employee Productivity (2023)
Afzali, Aaron; Paulo Vieito, João; Oxelheim, Lars; Randøy, Trond;Zitatform
Afzali, Aaron, Lars Oxelheim, Trond Randøy & João Paulo Vieito (2023): The Impact of Relative CEO Pay on Employee Productivity. (IFN working paper / Research Institute of Industrial Economic 1458), Stockholm, 38 S.
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"In this study, we examine the relationship between within-firm pay inequality and employee productivity. We use hand-collected data on a sample of S&P 1500 companies from 2018-2022 and find a concave relationship between the relative CEO pay and employee productivity. Consistent with tournament theory, we show that the pay gap between the CEO and the Vice Presidents initially positively affects employee productivity. However, this positive effect only works up to a certain level, at which - as expressed by the CEO-employee pay ratio - employee discontent initiates a fall in firm-level productivity. We identify this tipping point as the point at which CEO pay exceeds the median worker's pay by a factor of 40. The average CEO-employee pay ratio in our sample is 193:1, suggesting that most firms could have avoided a fall in productivity by reducing their CEO-employee pay ratio. Our results remain robust after controlling for endogeneity. From a public policy perspective, our findings pave the way for corporate self-regulation of CEO pay to avoid politically imposed hard laws." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Fairness im Berufsleben: Die Bedeutsamkeit der Fairnessdimensionen für die Arbeitszufriedenheit und die Vermeidung von Burnout-Symptomen : Die Ergebnisse der Replikationsstudie vom Frühjahr 2023 (2023)
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Bauer, Felix (2023): Fairness im Berufsleben. Die Bedeutsamkeit der Fairnessdimensionen für die Arbeitszufriedenheit und die Vermeidung von Burnout-Symptomen : Die Ergebnisse der Replikationsstudie vom Frühjahr 2023. Frankfurt am Main, 20 S.
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"Wie bedeutsam sind Fairnessdimensionen für die Arbeitszufriedenheit und für die Vermeidung von Burnout-Symptomen? Das prüfte die FOM Hochschule für Oekonomie und Management (Nürnberg) unter Leitung von Dr. Felix Bauer. Grundlage der Studie bildete eine Untersuchung der iba – Internationale Berufsakademie und der berufundfamilie im Sommer 2022 zu der Bedeutsamkeit und Umsetzung von Fairnessaspekten aus Sicht von Erwerbstätigen. Für die Replikationsstudie wurden die Daten von 518 Personen ausgewertet, die vom 17.03 bis zum 25.04.2023 an der Online-Befragung teilnahmen. Gut 2/3 von ihnen waren weiblich und 88,2% gehörten der Altersgruppe der 18- bis 31-Jährigen an, also der Generation Y und Generation Z. Die Auswertung zeigt: Fairnessdimensionen haben einen starken Einfluss auf die Arbeitszufriedenheit. Und: Burn-out-Symptome werden deutlich schwächer, je mehr Fairness-Kriterien eingehalten werden. Je mehr Beschäftigte das Empfinden haben, dass Fairnessfaktoren bei ihrer Arbeit gegeben sind, umso zufriedener sind sie. Dabei spielen insbesondere Aspekte aus den Bereichen Information und Kommunikation sowie Führung eine Rolle: „ein respektvoller und wertschätzender Umgang der Vorgesetzten mit den Anliegen der Mitarbeitenden“, „ein konstruktiver Umgang mit Fehlern“, „eine wertschätzende und respektvolle Kommunikation auf Teamebene bzw. mit Kolleg*innen“, die Möglichkeit gegenseitig regelmäßig Feedback zu geben bzw. zu erhalten sowie dass Termine bzw. Teambesprechungen eingehalten werden." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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Do women evaluate their lower earnings still to be fair? Findings on the contented female worker paradox examining the role of occupational contexts in 27 European countries (2023)
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Brüggemann, Ole & Thomas Hinz (2023): Do women evaluate their lower earnings still to be fair? Findings on the contented female worker paradox examining the role of occupational contexts in 27 European countries. In: European Sociological Review, Jg. 39, H. 6, S. 904-919. DOI:10.1093/esr/jcac073
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"It is still a puzzling question which gender inequalities in the labour market are perceived as fair and which are not – in the eye of the beholder. This study focuses on gender differences in the perceptions of the fairness of one’s own wage and the role of the occupational context individuals are embedded in. Based on data collected from 27 European countries as part of the 2018 European Social Survey (Round 9), our study contributes to the growing field of wage fairness perceptions by analysing the role of the occupational context (measured as the share of women and the gender pay gap in the respondent’s occupation), and how it moderates gender differences in fairness perceptions. Results indicate that – overall – female workers across Europe perceive their wages more often as unfairly “too low” than their male counterparts within the same country context and occupation, and that this gender gap is more pronounced in occupations with a high proportion of women and higher levels of gender inequality. We interpret these results as an indicator of growing awareness among women regarding the persisting “unfair” gendered wage distributions." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Notions of fair earnings for high-Status and low-status professions (2023)
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Eder, Anja & Franz Höllinger (2023): Notions of fair earnings for high-Status and low-status professions. In: Österreichische Zeitschrift für Soziologie, Jg. 48, H. 1, S. 37-51. DOI:10.1007/s11614-023-00511-9
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"In den heutigen europäischen Gesellschaften beruhen Vorstellungen von Lohngerechtigkeit einerseits auf dem meritokratischen Prinzip, demnach Menschen, die in ihrem Job mehr leisten, mehr verdienen sollten; andererseits sind diese Vorstellungen von historisch gewachsenen Ideen sozialer Gerechtigkeit geprägt, die sich von Land zu Land unterscheiden. Vor diesem Hintergrund untersuchen wir, welche Lohnunterschiede zwischen Berufen mit hohem Status (Manager*innen, Minister*innen, Mediziner*innen) und solchen mit niedrigem Status (Verkäufer*innen, ungelernte Arbeiter*innen) von der Bevölkerung in 14 west- und osteuropäischen Ländern als gerecht angesehen werden. Die Analysen beruhen auf Umfragedaten des International Social Survey Programme. Ein Vergleich der Ergebnisse für 2009 und 2019 zeigt auch, ob sich die Vorstellungen zur Lohngerechtigkeit zwischen den Berufsgruppen in einer Zeit zunehmender sozialer Ungleichheit und prekärer Arbeitsbedingungen verändert haben." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku, © Springer-Verlag)
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Faire Arbeit in der österreichischen Plattformökonomie? (2023)
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Griesser, Markus, Martin Gruber-Risak, Benjamin Herr, Leonhard Plank & Laura Vogel (2023): Faire Arbeit in der österreichischen Plattformökonomie? (Materialien zu Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft 242), Wien, 94 S.
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"Die vorliegende Studie liefert eine branchenübergreifende Darstellung der ortsgebundenen Plattformarbeit in Österreich anhand einer Untersuchung von sechs Unternehmen aus vier unterschiedlichen Branchen (Essenslieferung, Lebensmittellieferung, Personentransport, Reinigungsarbeit). Sie entstand im Kontext des internationalen Fairwork-Netzwerks, das im Sinne der Aktionsforschung zur Verbesserung der Arbeitsbedingungen im Bereich der Plattformökonomie beitragen möchte. Dabei werden Unternehmen entlang von fünf Prinzipien (faire Bezahlung, faire Arbeitsbedingungen, faire Verträge, faire Management-Prozesse, faire Mitbestimmung) auf Basis eines multimethodischen Designs bewertet. Die Ergebnisse der Studie unterstreichen die große Heterogenität von ortsgebundener Plattformarbeit und verdeutlichen, dass die Auswirkungen für Beschäftigte stark von den gewählten Geschäftsmodellen der Unternehmen abhängen. Dabei schneiden jene Plattformen am besten ab, die geschäftliche Risiken und Verantwortung nicht einseitig auf Beschäftigte abschieben." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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Social Positions and Fairness Views on Inequality (2023)
Hvidberg, Kristoffer B.; Stantcheva, Stefanie; Kreiner, Claus T.;Zitatform
Hvidberg, Kristoffer B., Claus T. Kreiner & Stefanie Stantcheva (2023): Social Positions and Fairness Views on Inequality. In: The Review of Economic Studies, Jg. 90, H. 6, S. 3083-3118. DOI:10.1093/restud/rdad019
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"We link survey data on Danish people’s perceived income positions and fairness views on inequality within various reference groups to administrative records on their reference groups, income histories, and life events. People are, on average, well-informed about the income levels of their reference groups. Yet, lower-ranked respondents in all groups tend to overestimate their own position among others because they believe others’ incomes are lower than they actually are, whereas the opposite holds true for higher-ranked respondents. Misperceptions of positions in reference groups relate to proximity to other individuals, transparency norms, and visible signals of income. People view inequalities within their co-workers and education groups as significantly more unfair than overall inequality, yet underestimate inequality the most exactly within these groups. Views on the fairness of inequalities are strongly correlated with an individual’s current position, move with shocks like unemployment or promotions, and change when experimentally informing people about their actual positions. However, the higher perceived unfairness of income differences within co-workers and education groups stays unchanged. The theoretical framework shows that this can have important implications for redistribution policy." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Unfair inequality and growth (2023)
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Marrero, Gustavo A. & Juan G. Rodríguez (2023): Unfair inequality and growth. In: The Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Jg. 125, H. 4, S. 1056-1092. DOI:10.1111/sjoe.12531
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"Fighting against economic inequality is one fundamental social goal in the agendas of most governments. However, recent studies highlight that people actually prefer unequal societies, as they accept inequality generated by an individual's effort and wish to reduce only unfair inequality (generated by factors beyond an individual's control). This distinction might help to explain the fundamental unsolved question about whether inequality is good or bad for growth: unfair inequality (UI) could be growth-deterring, while fair inequality (FI) might be growth-enhancing. We derive a reduced-form growth equation from a stylized overlapping-generations model with human capital that includes FI, UI, and poverty. Then, using an instrumental variable approach, we show for alternative samples and inequality measures at the worldwide level that the estimated coefficient associated with UI is always negative, while the coefficient of total inequality increases when UI is included in the regression. Moreover, we find that poverty mediates this relationship because the higher the poverty rate, the smaller the impact of either type of inequality on growth." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, Published by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons) ((en))
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Wage Structures, Fairness Perceptions, and Job Satisfaction: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data (2023)
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Mohrenweiser, Jens & Christian Pfeifer (2023): Wage Structures, Fairness Perceptions, and Job Satisfaction: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data. In: Journal of happiness studies, Jg. 24, H. 7, S. 2291-2308. DOI:10.1007/s10902-023-00680-0
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"The paper investigates the impact of firms’ wage structures and workers’ wage fairness perceptions on workers’ well-being. For this purpose, worker and establishment surveys are linked with administrative social security data. Four variables are generated, using approximately half a million worker-year observations, that describe firms’ wage structures and workers’ positions within the wage structures: own absolute wages, internal reference wages within firms, external reference wages, and the wage dispersion in firms. The interrelations between these wage structure variables, workers’ perceived wage fairness, and job satisfaction are then analyzed using regressions. Interpersonal wage comparisons between co-workers in the same firm and across firms as well as wage fairness perceptions are found to be significant determinants of workers’ well-being. The overall findings suggest that equity and social status considerations as well as altruistic preferences towards co-workers and inequality aversion are more important than signal considerations in this context." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © Springer) ((en))