Fairness Evaluations of Higher Education Graduates' Earnings: The Role of Female Preference for Equality and Self-Interest.

ABSTRACT: Educational and occupational horizontal segregation contribute significantly to economic inequalities, especially in contexts with a strong correspondence between fields of study and occupational outputs, such as in Germany. However, the extent to which individuals perceive disparities in economic returns across different fields of study as fair and the factors influencing these fairness evaluations remain largely unexplored. This study aims to understand fairness evaluations by assessing two theoretical explanations and their interrelation: (1) female preference for equality, where women generally favour smaller earnings disparities, and (2) biases leading to higher reward expectations for individuals in the same field of study as the evaluator. Our empirical research draws on a novel sur

SUBMITTER: Zamberlan A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12163563 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature