The existing literature on determinants of migration flows typically claims that income differences across countries should be a pushing factor for people's movement. We suggest that institutional quality is a better proxy for the factors that trigger migration. People may well want to stay in...

Using panel data from more than 100 countries around the world from 1988 through 2007, this paper examines the relationship between economic and social globalization and absolute income poverty ex post. We use the globalization index developed by Dreher (2006) and the World Bank poverty...

1. Introduction -- 2. Measuring Health -- 3. Measuring Inequality -- 4. How Can Economic Inequality Influence Health? -- 5. Correlation Or Causality? Interpreting Scatter Plots And Regressions -- 6. The Ecological Fallacy: What Conclusions Can Be Made From Group Averages? -- 7. Income Inequality...

This paper examines whether social spending cushions the effect of globalization on within-country inequality. Using information on disposable and market income inequality and data on overall social spending, and health and education spending from the ILO and the World Bank/WHO, we analyze...