Inequality is an important threat to the globalization of the world economy that we experience today. This contribution … a globalization backlash . The closing of commodity and capital markets did always take place during or 5-10 years after …

This study considers how education and globalization affect income inequality in Asia, with unbalanced panel data. The … levels of globalization are correlated with higher levels of income inequality, while freedom, either political or economic …

This paper re-examines the link between globalization and income inequality. We use data for 140 countries over the … period 1970-2014 and employ an IV approach to deal with the endogeneity of globalization measures. We find that the link … between globalization and income inequality differs across different groups of countries. There is a robust positive …

This paper investigates how government ideology and globalization are associated with top income shares in 17 OECD … countries over the period 1970 to 2014. We use top income shares of the World Wealth and Income Database (WID). Globalization is … measured by the KOF index of globalization. Static and dynamic panel model results show that the top income shares increased …

I investigate how government ideology and globalization are associated with top income shares in 16 OECD countries over … the period 1970 to 2010. I use the new World Top Incomes Database. Globalization is measured by the KOF index of … globalization. The results show that the top 1% income share increased more under rightwing governments than under leftwing …