Fairness and the labour market; A theoretical and empirical analysis of layoffs in Germany
Autor: Christian Pfeifer
Nummer: 328, Nov 2005, pp. 22
JEL-Class: D63, J63, M12, M51
Abstract:
In recent years layoffs have increasingly become the focus of public attention. So far, however, there has been no representative study for Germany of how far and under what conditions layoffs are accepted by the population - in other words by people who are not immediately affected. Principles of distributive justice, rules of procedural justice, attribution theory, and psychological contract theory form the framework of the analysis. On this basis, hypotheses are generated, which are tested empirically in a telephone survey conducted among East and West Germans in 2004 (n=3039).
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