Globalization and social justice in OECD countries

Kauder, Björn; Potrafke, Niklas

doi:10.1007/s10290-015-0213-1

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“…While we have not found any evidence for a moderating effect of social spending, other policy differences between countries might still matter for the association between globalization and inequality, including government ideology (Ha, ), social justice (Kauder & Potrafke, ), or transition toward market economy (Dorn et al, ). Our results also do not exclude the possibility that more fine‐grained measures of economic globalization or analyses of different policy measures would reach other conclusions.…”

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Can social spending cushion the inequality effect of globalization?

Bergh

Mirkina

Nilsson

2019

Economics & Politics

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This paper examines whether social spending cushions the effect of globalization on within‐country inequality. Using information on disposable and market income inequality and data on overall social spending, and health and education spending from the ILO and the World Bank/WHO, we analyze whether social spending moderates the association between economic globalization and inequality. The results confirm that economic globalization—especially economic flows—associates with higher income inequality, an effect driven by non‐OECD countries. Health spending is strongly associated with lower inequality, but we find no robust evidence that any kind of social spending negatively moderates the association between economic globalization and inequality.

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Can social spending cushion the inequality effect of globalization?

Bergh

Mirkina

Nilsson

2019

Economics & Politics

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“…The data are available as a cross‐section for 31 OECD countries measuring social justice in 2008–10. Kauder and Potrafke () investigate how the social justice indicator is correlated with the KOF globalisation indices over the period 1991–2007. The results show that OECD countries which experienced rapid globalisation enjoy social justice.…”

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The Evidence on Globalisation

Potrafke¹

2014

World Economy

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Globalisation is blamed for many socioeconomic shortcomings. I discuss the consequences of globalisation by surveying the empirical globalisation literature. My focus is on the KOF indices of globalisation that have been used in more than 100 studies. Early studies using the KOF index reported correlations between globalisation and several outcome variables. Studies published more recently identify causal effects. The evidence shows that globalisation has spurred economic growth, promoted gender equality and improved human rights. Moreover, globalisation did not erode welfare state activities, did not have any significant effect on labour market interaction and hardly influenced market deregulation. It increased, however, within‐country income inequality. The consequences of globalisation thus turn out to be overall much more favourable than often conjectured in the public discourse.

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“…Globalisation has been shown to be promote social justice and life expectancy(Bergh & Nilsson, 2010a;Hillman, 2008;Kauder & Potrafke, 2015) and to reduce absolute poverty(Bergh & Nilsson, 2014).…”

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The globalisation–welfare state nexus: Evidence from Asia

Potrafke

2018

World Economy

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How globalisation influences social expenditure has been examined for industrialised countries. Globalisation has often been shown to be positively associated with social expenditure in established industrialised countries, a finding that corroborates the compensation hypothesis. Scholars have focused on industrialised countries, because social expenditure is difficult to measure in developing countries. I use new data on social expenditure for Asian non‐OECD countries. Globalisation is measured by the new KOF Globalisation Index. My results do not suggest that globalisation influenced social expenditures in Asia. Neither do the results suggest that the nexus between globalisation and social expenditures varied across high‐income countries, such as Hong Kong and Singapore, and lower‐income Asian countries or across Asian regions. It is conceivable that Asian citizens did not demand increasing social support when globalisation proceeded rapidly because they enjoyed family and other private assistance. Asian countries also have weaker tax and labour market institutions than OECD countries and have therefore more difficulties in increasing social expenditure.

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Globalization and social justice in OECD countries

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Can social spending cushion the inequality effect of globalization?

Can social spending cushion the inequality effect of globalization?

The Evidence on Globalisation

The globalisation–welfare state nexus: Evidence from Asia

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