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Globalization and income inequality revisited
Dorn, Florian; Fuest, Clemens; Potrafke, Niklas - 2018
This paper re-examines the link between globalization and income inequality. We use data for 140 countries over the … period 1970-2014 and employ an IV approach to deal with the endogeneity of globalization measures. We find that the link … between globalization and income inequality differs across different groups of countries. There is a robust positive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011789164
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The rise of China's global middle class in international perspective
Sicular, Terry; Yang, Xiuna; Gustafsson, Björn - 2021
Defining the 'global middle class' as being neither poor nor rich in the developed world, we estimate the size of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012588683
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The rise of China's global middle class in international perspective
Sicular, Terry; Yang, Xiuna; Gustafsson, Björn - 2021
Defining the ‘global middle class’ as being neither poor nor rich in the developed world, we estimate the size of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012591395
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Globalization and income inequality revisited
Dorner, Florian; Fuest, Clemens; Potrafke, Niklas - 2018
This paper re-examines the link between globalization and income inequality. We use data for 140 countries over the … period 1970-2014 and employ an IV approach to deal with the endogeneity of globalization measures. We find that the link … between globalization and income inequality differs across different groups of countries. There is a robust positive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011794029
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A more equal world? : an analysis of the global inequality trends in the period 2000-2020
Guerriero, Arthur Zito - 2024
countries, as it was mainly driven by high growth rates in Asia. Combining data from the World Income Inequality Database (WIID …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014458471
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A Pause in the Growth of Inequality in China?
Herd, Richard - 2010
In recent years, policymaking in China has put increasing emphasis on stemming the growth in inequality, which had been fairly steep since the 1980s. Policy action has taken the form of regional development measures and of reforms of various aspects of the social safety net broadly defined. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012444749
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China's emerging global middle class
Gustafsson, Björn; Sicular, Terry; Yang, Xiuna - 2017
This chapter seeks to throw new light on the emergence of the Chinese economic middle class using data from the China Household Income Project from 2002, 2007, and 2013. We find that between 2002 and 2013 China's income distribution was transformed from a pyramid shape, with a majority having...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011876462
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China's WTO accession and income inequality in European regions : external pressure and internal adjustments
Kvedaras, Virmantas; Cseres-Gergely, Zsombor - 2020
Exports from China have surged substantially since its accession to the World Trade Organization in 2001. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012219034
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Global income distribution and poverty : implications from the IPCC SRES scenarios
Calzadilla, Alvaro - 2010
The Special Report on Emissions Scenarios (SRES) has been widely used to analyze climate change impacts, vulnerability and adaptation. The storylines behind these scenarios outline alternative development pathways, which have been the base for climate research and other studies at global,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008736186
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When globalization meets urbanization : labor market reform, income inequality, and economic growth in the People's Republic of China
Lu, Ming; Gao, Hong - 2009
The development path that the People's Republic of China (PRC) has been following during the past thirty years has led to both internal and external economic imbalances, and is now greatly challenged by the global crisis. This unbalanced growth path was primarily a result of the PRC's labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003901566