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which globalization should influence the personal distribution of market and disposable incomes as well as redistribution. I … employ panel data covering 28 OECD countries between 1960 and 2010 to analyze the impact of globalization on a set of labor … industrialized countries. Rather, the globalization-induced rise in income dispersion through greater factor price differences is …
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Defining the ‘global middle class’ as being neither poor nor rich in the developed world, we estimate the size of the global middle class in China and 33 other countries and analyze China’s expanding middle class in international perspective. China’s global middle class has grown rapidly...
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Many countries in the Western hemisphere are currently experiencing a backlash against globalization. Most of the …
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overcome that trade-off. The rise in inequality is widely interpreted with regard to globalization and technological change … the skewness of income distributions: In the globalization model, increasing inequality is accompanied first by a fall and …. -- Inequality ; globalization ; diffusion ; welfare states ; distribution skewness ; statistical methods ; cross-national comparison …
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Combining consensus forecasts of growth of population and real incomes during 2014-35 with household income surveys for more than a hundred countries accounting for the bulk of the world economy, we project the income distribution in 2035 across all individuals in the world. We find that the...
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Current studies addressing the rise in inequality confine themselves to country-level developments. This paper delineates trends in earnings inequality and employment at the sectoral level for eight LIS countries between 1985-2005. Earnings inequality mainly manifests itself within rather than...
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We introduce two separate datasets (The Global Consumption Dataset (GCD) and The Global Income Dataset (GID)) making possible an unprecedented portrait of consumption and income of persons over time, within and across countries, around the world. The current benchmark version of the dataset...
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We introduce two separate datasets (The Global Consumption Dataset (GCD) and The Global Income Dataset (GID)) containing an unprecedented portrait of consumption and income of persons over time, within and across countries, around the world. The benchmark version of the dataset presents...
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This article studies global distributions of capital and labor income among individuals in 2000 and 2016. By constructing a novel database covering approximately the 80% of the global output and the 60% of the world population, two major findings stand out. First, the world underwent a...
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This paper examines the distributive impact of economic globalisation, technological progress and changes in labour market policies, regulations and institutions in OECD countries over the past quarter century, up to the Great Recession. It identifies the relevant pathways between macro-economic...
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