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Do Liberalization and Globalization Increase Income Inequality?

Bergh, Andreas - 2014

Using the Standardized World Income Inequality Database, we examine if the KOF Index of Globalization and the Economic … variables and controlling for potential endogeneity using GMM. Social globalization and deregulation is also linked to … inequality. Reforms towards economic freedom seem to increase inequality mainly in rich countries, and social globalization is …

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Economic Freedom & Inequality : A Survey of the Empirical Literature

Bennett, Daniel L. - 2023

While economic freedom has been linked to positive outcomes such as economic growth and well-being, studies examining its relationship with income inequality have produced inconsistent results. The chapter reviews empirical research published in peer-reviewed journals indexed in the Social...

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Some are more equal than others : new estimates of global and regional inequality

Darvas, Zsolt M. - 2016

We compare four methodologies to estimate the global distribution of income and find that many methods work well, but the method based on two-parameter distributions is more accurate than other methods. This method is simpler, easier to implement and relies on a more internationally-comparable...

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Global Inequality in Length of Life : 1950–2015

Jordá, Vanesa - 2017

This paper provides a broad picture of national, regional and global trends of inequality in length of life over the period 1950–2015. We use data on life tables from World Population Prospects to develop a comprehensive database of a battery of inequality measures for 201 countries at...

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How Polarized Is the Global Income Distribution?

Roope, Laurence S. J. - 2018

The interest in the level of global inequality has surged in recent years. This paper complements existing estimates of global inequality by providing the first estimates of the level of bipolarization of the global income distribution. During 1975–2010, global bipolarization declined...

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How polarized is the global income distribution?

Roope, Laurence; Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel; Tarp, Finn - 2018

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Guesstimating is Superior to Omitting : A Better Way of Addressing Sparse Data in Economic Freedom of the World

Murphy, Ryan - 2014

Economic Freedom of the World, an economic index published by the Fraser Institute, has seen wide use inside and outside academia. Certain data issues arise, however, when complete data are unavailable. This paper proposes to mitigate or eliminate many of these issues by filling in the missing...

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How Robust is the Relationship between Economic Freedom and Economic Growth?

Sturm, Jan-Egbert; de Haan, Jakob - 2011

Using various indicators for economic freedom, it is shown that increases in economic freedom are robustly related to economic growth. This conclusion holds even if the impact of outlying observations is taken into account. The level of economic freedom is not related to economic growth

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Was Kuznets right? : new evidence on the relationship between structural transformation and inequality

Baymul, Çinar; Sen, Kunal - 2019

We examine the Kuznets postulate that structural transformation leads to higher inequality using comparable panel data for a large number of developing and developed countries for 1960-2012. Countries are in different stages of structural transformation, being either structurally...

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The effects of economic globalisation and ethnic fractionalisation on redistribution

Pleninger, Regina; Sturm, Jan-Egbert - 2019

We examine the effect of economic globalisation on income redistribution and hypothesise that it depends on ethnic fractionalisation. In highly fractionalised countries, powerful ethnicities are able to extract globalisation-induced benefits, whereas their governments face substantial political...

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