TY - JOUR

T1 - “Have you felt angry lately?”

T2 - A note on unfair wage perceptions and the negative emotion of anger

AU - Pfeifer, Christian

PY - 2017/4/1

Y1 - 2017/4/1

N2 - The author analyses the nexus between unfair wage perceptions of workers and the frequency of the negative emotion of anger. For this purpose, German household panel data for the years 2007, 2009, 2011 and 2013 are used. Angry feelings in the last four weeks have occurred significantly more frequently for workers who perceive their wage as unfair, whereas the own absolute hourly wage is not significantly correlated with the frequency of having felt angry. The results further indicate that workers have felt more often angry if working hours are larger; but the economic significance seems rather small compared to unfair wage perceptions.

AB - The author analyses the nexus between unfair wage perceptions of workers and the frequency of the negative emotion of anger. For this purpose, German household panel data for the years 2007, 2009, 2011 and 2013 are used. Angry feelings in the last four weeks have occurred significantly more frequently for workers who perceive their wage as unfair, whereas the own absolute hourly wage is not significantly correlated with the frequency of having felt angry. The results further indicate that workers have felt more often angry if working hours are larger; but the economic significance seems rather small compared to unfair wage perceptions.

KW - Economics, empirical/statistics

KW - anger

KW - emotions

KW - fairness

KW - wage

KW - J31

KW - J33

KW - M52

KW - I10

KW - I31

KW - Economics

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84960172305&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1111/boer.12070

DO - 10.1111/boer.12070

M3 - Journal articles

VL - 69

SP - 124

EP - 137

JO - Bulletin of Economic Research

JF - Bulletin of Economic Research

SN - 1467-8586

IS - 2

ER -