New empirical insights into conflicting claims problems

José-Manuel Giménez-Gómez (), M. Carmen Marco-Gil () and Juan-Francisco Sánchez-García ()
Additional contact information
José-Manuel Giménez-Gómez: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
M. Carmen Marco-Gil: Univ. Politécnica de Cartagena
Juan-Francisco Sánchez-García: Univ. Politécnica de Cartagena

SERIEs: Journal of the Spanish Economic Association, 2022, vol. 13, issue 4, No 4, 709-738

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Conflicting claims problems; Fair allocations; Social questionnaires (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D63 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s13209-022-00265-9 Abstract (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:series:v:13:y:2022:i:4:d:10.1007_s13209-022-00265-9

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.springer.com/economics/journal/13209

DOI: 10.1007/s13209-022-00265-9

Access Statistics for this article

SERIEs: Journal of the Spanish Economic Association is currently edited by Nezih Guner

More articles in SERIEs: Journal of the Spanish Economic Association from Springer, Spanish Economic Association Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().