Social Position and Fairness Views

We link survey data containing Danish people’s perceptions of where they rank in various reference groups and fairness views with administrative records on their income history, life events, groups. People know positions well, but believe others are closer to themselves than really are. The perceived inequalities is strongly related current social position, moves shocks position (e.g., unemployment or promotions), changes when people experimentally shown actual positions. view within education group co-workers as most unfair, underestimate inequality the exactly these