IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/cup/pscirm/v8y2020i3p509-525_8.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Globalization and comparative compositional inequality

Author

Listed:
  • Philips, Andrew Q.
  • Souza, Flávio D. S.
  • Whitten, Guy D.

Abstract

Globalization 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.

Suggested Citation

  • Philips, Andrew Q. & Souza, Flávio D. S. & Whitten, Guy D., 2020. "Globalization and comparative compositional inequality," Political Science Research and Methods, Cambridge University Press, vol. 8(3), pages 509-525, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:pscirm:v:8:y:2020:i:3:p:509-525_8
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2049847019000256/type/journal_article
    File Function: link to article abstract page
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:cup:pscirm:v:8:y:2020:i:3:p:509-525_8. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Kirk Stebbing (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.cambridge.org/ram .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.