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planation for the heterogeneity in attitudes toward progressive taxation. Rather, we
show that the choice of the favoured tax rate is also driven by fairness considerations.".
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Heinemann, Friedrich, Henninghausen, Tanja und Moessinger, Marc-Daniel, (2010).
Intrinsic Work Motivation and Pension Reform Acceptance. Public Choice Society:
Gainesville.
Abstract: "Although demographic change leaves pay-as-you-go pension systems unsustainable,
reforms such as a higher pension age are highly unpopular. This contribution
looks into the role of intrinsic motivation as a driver for pension reform acceptance.
Theoretical reasoning suggests that this driver should be relevant: The
choice among different pension reform options (increasing pension age, increasing
contributions, cutting pensions) can be modelled within the framework of an optimal
job separation decision. In this optimization, intrinsic job satisfaction matters as it
decreases the subjective costs of a higher pension age. We test this key hypothesis on
the basis of the German General Social Survey (ALLBUS). The results are unambiguous:
In addition to factors such as age or education the inclusion of intrinsic work
motivation helps to improve our prediction of an individual's reform orientation. Our
results are of importance for reform acceptance beyond the specific topic of pension
reform. They point to the fact that the support for welfare state reform is also decided
at the workplace." Der ALLBUS 2006 wird als Hauptdatensatz zur
Hypothesenüberprüfung verwendet, unter anderem werden die Aussagen zu Präferenzen
bei der Art der Rentenreform genutzt (Erhöhung Renteneintrittsalter, höhere
Beiträge usw.).
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Heinemann, Friedrich, Bischoff, Ivo und Hennighausen, Tanja, (2009). Choosing
from the Reform Menu Card. Individual Determinants of Labour Market Policy Preferences.
Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, 229: 180-197.
Abstract: "This contribution empirically explores the drivers of labour market reform
acceptance for the individual level in Germany. For that purpose we make use of the
representative German General Social Survey (ALLBUS). This survey offers data to
which extent individuals support benefit cuts, longer working years, cutting subsidies
to declining industries, phasing out of employment programmes, or a liberalisation of
employment protection. Our theoretical considerations suggest that self-interest, information,
fairness judgements, economic beliefs and other individual factors such as
socialisation under the communist regime in the former German Democratic Republic
drive individual reform preferences. Our empirical results support this notion:
While we find self-interest to be an important driving force, our results show that a