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Empirical Investigation on Globalization and Social Polarization: Cross Country Analysis

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  • Aylin Ko

    (Gaziantep University, Faculty of Economic and Administrative Sciences, Department of International Trade and Logistics, Gaziantep, Turkey.)

  • Ahmet Y lmaz Ata

    (Gaziantep University, Faculty of Economic and Administrative Sciences, Department of Economics, Gaziantep, Turkey)

  • Zeynep irkin

    (Ankara University, Faculty of Economic and Administrative Sciences, Department of Economics, Ankara, Turkey)

Abstract

It is considered that the integration process of both developed and developing countries with the global world affects the aspect of social polarization in these countries. Two main approaches which are different from each other exist in the related literature about the effects of globalization on the social polarization. The first approach, which is mostly supported by neo-liberal economists, claims that the globalization influences the social polarization positively. The other approach suggests that the social polarization increases in the economies together with the globalization process. With this study which was prepared in this scope, the effect of globalization process on the social polarization was tried to be tested by cross-sectional analysis of the data of 2008 of twenty-seven EU member countries. As a result of the findings obtained in this study, it was concluded that the globalization process has a decreasing effect on the social polarization in these countries.

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  • Aylin Ko & Ahmet Y lmaz Ata & Zeynep irkin, 2013. "Empirical Investigation on Globalization and Social Polarization: Cross Country Analysis," International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues, Econjournals, vol. 3(1), pages 206-213.
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    Keywords

    Social Polarization; Globalization; Income Inequality;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • D02 - Microeconomics - - General - - - Institutions: Design, Formation, Operations, and Impact
    • D40 - Microeconomics - - Market Structure, Pricing, and Design - - - General
    • D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
    • D73 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Bureaucracy; Administrative Processes in Public Organizations; Corruption
    • D82 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design

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