1st Edition

Inequality and Economic Integration

Edited By Francesco Farina, Ernesto Savaglio Copyright 2006
348 Pages
by Routledge

348 Pages
by Routledge

352 Pages
by Routledge

Internationally, globalization and increased economic integration has impacted quality of life and individual well-being. Attempts to evaluate the impact on income dispersion from this process have been extremely controversial. This key volume is the first real attempt to build up indices and a theoretical framework in order to deal with inequality of opportunity, and to enable social and... Read more

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

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Francesco Farina, Ernesto Savaglio