Theorien der Gerechtigkeitsforschung und experimentelle Studien legen nahe, dass das Erleben von Ungerechtigkeit Stress auslösen und sich so auf die individuelle Gesundheit auswirken kann. Mit Längsschnittdaten des Sozio-ökonomischen Panels (SOEP) der Jahre 2005 bis 2011 untersucht dieser Beitrag, ob ein als zu niedrig – und damit als ungerecht – empfundenes Erwerbseinkommen einen unmittelbaren Einfluss ...
While there is ample evidence that income inequalities influence individuals’ health status, the mechanisms behind this income inequality–health correlation are only partially understood. This study shows that inequalities evaluated on the basis of individual perceptions of injustice are a driving force behind this connection. Two main questions are addressed: Does perceiving one’s earnings as unfair ...
Saving decisions are complex, since there are many concurrent motives for saving a portion of one's income. However, while the existing literature covers all of these motives, most contributions select only one of them as a focus and relegate the others to the background by making simplifying assumptions about them. While the focus on only one saving motive is vital for many insights on aggregate ...