Inequality and Economic Integration

ISBN-13: 9780415342117 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 335 str.

Francesco Farina; Ernesto Savaglio

Opis

Globalization and increased integration has impacted on quality of life and living standards across the world. Attempts to evaluate the impact on income dispersion from this process have been extremely controversial.
This new volume is the first real attempt to build up indices and a theoretical framework to deal with inequality of opportunity, and in order to enable social and political institutions to monitor increasing disparities in well-being and social exclusion. It examines the possible relationships between the recent acceleration in economic integration and inequality among persons and countries.
The contributions in this volume cover different-sub fields of economics and examine inequality utilizing a uni-dimensional inequality criteria. They analyze both the negative and positive spillover effects of economic integration on individuals, social groups and nations as well as examining both theoretically and empirically, the multi-dimensional impact of globalization on the most deprived groups.

Spis treści

Introduction  Part 1: Inequality in an Historical Perspective  1. Globalization, Income Distribution and History   Part 2: Income Inequality  2. From Earning Dispersion to Income Inequality  3. Social Mobility   4. The Size of Redistribution in OECD Countries: Does it influence Wage Inequality  Part 3: Globalisation and Well-Being  5. Global Health  6. Economic Integration and Cross-country Convergence: Exercises in Growth Theory and Empirics  7. Cultural Diversity, European Integration and the Welfare State  8. The Welfare State, Redistribution and the Economy  Part 4: Multidimensional Inequality 9. Social Welfare, Priority to the Worst-Off and the Dimensions of Individual Well Being  10. Three Approaches to the Analysis of Multidimensional Inequality  11. Multidimensional Egalitarianism and the Dominance Approach: A Lost Paradise?  12. The Normative Approach to the Measurement of Multidimensional Inequality

O autorze

Francesco Farina, Ernesto Savaglio