Globalization and increased integration has impacted on quality of life and living standards across the world. Attempts to evaluate the impact on income dispersion from this process have been extremely controversial.
This new volume is the first real attempt to build up indices and a theoretical framework to deal with inequality of opportunity, and in order to enable social and political institutions to monitor increasing disparities in well-being and social exclusion. It examines the possible relationships between the recent acceleration in economic integration and inequality among persons and countries.
The contributions in this volume cover different-sub fields of economics and examine inequality utilizing a uni-dimensional inequality criteria. They analyze both the negative and positive spillover effects of economic integration on individuals, social groups and nations as well as examining both theoretically and empirically, the multi-dimensional impact of globalization on the most deprived groups.