Globalization and Income Inequality: A European Perspective
17 Pages Posted: 23 Aug 2007
Date Written: July 2007
Abstract
There is growing concern in Europe over the impact of globalization on high and evenly shared living standards. These concerns have often surfaced in response to falling labor income shares in aggregate national income data. However, these data may tell little about the underlying distribution of incomes based on household disposable incomes. While summary measures of income distributions also suggest that inequality has increased in most industrialized countries, this development was very uneven and much less pronounced in euro-area countries, suggesting that broad phenomena such as trade liberalization and technological change may not be major drivers of inequality.
Keywords: Working Paper, Globalization, Europe, Income distribution, National income accounts
Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation
Do you have a job opening that you would like to promote on SSRN?
Recommended Papers
-
Trends in U.S. Wage Inequality: Re-Assessing the Revisionists
By David H. Autor, Lawrence F. Katz, ...
-
Trends in U.S. Wage Inequality: Re-Assessing the Revisionists
By David H. Autor, Lawrence F. Katz, ...
-
Skill Biased Technological Change and Rising Wage Inequality: Some Problems and Puzzles
By David Card and John E. Dinardo
-
The Polarization of the U.S. Labor Market
By David H. Autor, Lawrence F. Katz, ...
-
Rising Wage Inequality: The Role of Composition and Prices
By David H. Autor, Lawrence F. Katz, ...
-
Rising Wage Inequality: The Role of Composition and Prices
By David H. Autor, Lawrence F. Katz, ...
-
Changes in the Labor Supply Behavior of Married Women: 1980-2000
By Francine D. Blau and Lawrence M. Kahn
-
Revisiting the German Wage Structure
By Christian Dustmann, Johannes Ludsteck, ...
-
Quantile Regression Under Misspecification, with an Application to the U.S. Wage Structure
By Joshua D. Angrist, Victor Chernozhukov, ...