» Veröffentlicht am
20. Oktober 2022
New paper by Jule Adriaans on the consequences of unfair earnings published in European Sociological Review
Referenz: Adriaans, J. (2022). Fairness of earnings in Europe:
the consequences of unfair under- and overrewad for life
satisfaction. European Sociological Review (online first),
https://doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcac044
Abstract:
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.
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