Author, as appears in the article.: Gimenez-Gomez, Jose-Manuel; Carmen Marco-Gil, M.; Sanchez-Garcia, Juan-Francisco;
Department: Economia
URV's Author/s: Giménez Gómez, José Manuel
Keywords: Taxation Social questionnaires Resource Models Management Game-theoretic analysis Fair allocations Conflicting claims problems Bankruptcy
Abstract: The present paper aims to explore the perception of fairness in conflicting claims problems (O'Neill in Math Soc Sci 2(4):345-371, 1982). To do so, we present a questionnaire given to a large heterogeneous group of people (students, employees, retirees). Distributive justice criteria are studied through different ways of distributing scarce resources, and we analyse whether the population's response patterns are conditioned by specific features of the economic context. We find that proportional allocation is generally considered the fairest way of distributing resources. However, the principle of proportionality is abandoned by part of the population when claims represent needs and claimants have scarce resources. Moreover, we observe that age, employment status and education levels significantly influence the perception of fairness.
Thematic Areas: General economics,econometrics and finance Economics, econometrics and finance (miscellaneous) Economics, econometrics and finance (all) Economics Ciencias sociales
licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
Author's mail: josemanuel.gimenez@urv.cat
Author identifier: 0000-0003-0202-4623
Record's date: 2024-09-07
Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Licence document URL: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
Papper original source: Series-Journal Of The Spanish Economic Association. 13 (4): 709-738
APA: Gimenez-Gomez, Jose-Manuel; Carmen Marco-Gil, M.; Sanchez-Garcia, Juan-Francisco; (2022). New empirical insights into conflicting claims problems. Series-Journal Of The Spanish Economic Association, 13(4), 709-738. DOI: 10.1007/s13209-022-00265-9
Article's DOI: 10.1007/s13209-022-00265-9
Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Journal publication year: 2022
Publication Type: Journal Publications