Globalization and comparative compositional inequality Academic Article

abstract

• AbstractGlobalization has been one of the biggest driving forces of the last half century. There has been substantial disagreement about the impact that increased international integration has on income inequality. Though most agree that globalization positively affects economic output, it is no surprise that it leads to relative winners and losers within nations. The question that remains is where in the income distribution are these relative gains and losses occurring? We offer a broader picture of globalization's effects on inequality by using a dynamic compositional approach to test the impact of globalization and relative factor endowments on the composition of income. Using data from four countries, we model the effects of globalization on quantiles of the income distribution. Our findings suggest that globalization has substantial (and divergent) effects across income strata, and that these effects differ across nations based on relative factor endowments.

authors

• Whitten, Guy

published proceedings

• POLITICAL SCIENCE RESEARCH AND METHODS

altmetric score

• 5.55

author list (cited authors)

• Philips, A. Q., Souza, F., & Whitten, G. D.

citation count

• 6

complete list of authors

• Philips, Andrew Q||Souza, Flavio DS||Whitten, Guy D

publication date

• January 2020

publisher

• Cambridge University Press (CUP)  Publisher

published in

• Political Science Research and Methods  Journal

keywords

• Comparative Political Economy
• Globalization
• Inequality
• Time Series

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1017/psrm.2019.25

start page

• 509

end page

• 525

volume

• 8

issue

• 3

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/psrm.2019.25

user-defined tag

• 10 Reduced Inequalities