Status in the World System, Income Inequality, and Economic Growth

The Global Economy and Changes in the Determinants of Cross-National Income Inequality

“…Some scholars have found world-system position to be significantly related to level of income inequality (Nolan 1983a(Nolan , 1983bBraun 1991), while other have found no significant relationship between the two variables (Weede and Tiefenbach 1981;Bollen andJackman 1985). Still others claim that world-system status is nothing more than a measure of economic development (see Weede and Kummer 1985 for an elaboration of this argument).…”

“…World-system analysis constitutes a third model of income inequality (Wallerstein 1974(Wallerstein , 1979(Wallerstein , 1980Nolan 1983aNolan , 1983bBraun 1991). This perspective is an extension of dependency theory and, as such, is similar to dependency theory in many respects (Bornschier and Chase-Dunn, 1985: 1-5).…”

“…Countries scoring a + 1 on this index have hi?h levels of processed-good exports and high levels of raw-material imports. These data are taken from the United Nations' Nolan (1983aNolan ( , 1983b; Weede and Kummer (1985); and Braun (1991). I coded five countries not classified by Bollen (1983).…”

Within-Country Inequality and the Modern World-System: A Theoretical Reprise and Empirical First Step

“…Extended derivations of a theoretical proposition relating world-system dynamics to income inequality are limited in the literature (Bornschier and Chase-Dunn 1985;Nolan 1983). …”

“…On the other hand, the association between world-system position and various forms of dependency have been much disputed, and empirical tests of the world-systems perspective have become infrequent (e.g. Alderson and Nielsen 1999;Beer and Boswell 2002;Lee et al 2007;Nolan 1983;Weede and Kummer 1985).…”