Arbeitspapier

Fairness spillovers: The case of taxation

It is standardly assumed that individuals react to perceived unfairness or norm violations in precisely the same area or relationship where the original offense has occurred. However, grievances over being exposed to injustice may have even broader consequences and also spill over to other contexts, causing non-compliant behavior there. We present evidence that such 'fairness spillovers' can incur large economic costs: A belief that there is unfairness in taxation in the sense that the rich don't pay enough taxes is associated with a twenty percent higher level of paid absenteeism from work.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Preprints of the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods ; No. 2012/17

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
Tax Evasion and Avoidance
Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents: Household
Thema
fairness
Beliefs
Taxation
Work Morale
Steuergerechtigkeit
Wahrnehmung
Soziale Werte
Spillover-Effekt
Arbeitsethik
Soziale Kosten
Schätzung
USA

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Cornelißen, Thomas
Himmler, Oliver
Koenig, Tobias
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2012

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Cornelißen, Thomas
  • Himmler, Oliver
  • Koenig, Tobias
  • Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods

Entstanden

  • 2012

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