PERCEIVED FAIRNESS AND CONSEQUENCES OF AFFIRMATIVE ACTION POLICIES

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Schildberg-Hoerisch, Hannah; Schwarz, Marco A.; Trieu, Chi; Willrodt, Jana
• 署名单位: IZA Institute Labor Economics; Leibniz Association; Ifo Institut
• 刊物名称: ECONOMIC JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0013-0133
• DOI: 10.1093/ej/uead063
• 发表日期: 2023
• 页码: 3099-3135
• 关键词: gender-differences; Real-effort; Quotas; women; competitiveness; DISCRIMINATION; willingness; performance; EFFICIENCY; QUALITY

摘要

Debates about affirmative action often revolve around fairness. In a laboratory experiment, we study three quota rules in tournaments that favour individuals whose performance is low, either due to discrimination, low productivity, or choice of a short working time. Affirmative action favouring discriminated individuals is perceived as fairest, followed by that targeting individuals with a short working time, while favouring low-productivity individuals is not perceived as fairer than an absence of affirmative action. Higher fairness perceptions coincide with a higher willingness to compete and less retaliation against winners, underlining that fairness perceptions matter for the consequences of affirmative action.