Rising Income Inequality : Technology, or Trade and Financial Globalization? /

We examine the relationship between trade and financial globalization and the rise in inequality in most countries in recent decades. We find technological progress as having a greater impact than globalization on inequality. The limited overall impact of globalization reflects two offsetting tenden...

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Auteur principal: Papageorgiou, Chris
Autres auteurs: Jaumotte, Florence, Lall, Subir
Format: Revue
Langue:English
Publié: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2008.
Collection:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2008/185
Accès en ligne:Full text available on IMF
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