Globalization and Inequality in Advanced Economies Trade, Tax Base Mobility, and Policy Implications

This volume surveys and combines the different dimensions of globalization so as to propose a general diagnosis of the way they interact to explain growing inequality in advanced economies. The extant economic literature has widely analyzed (i) the impact on inequality of trade between advanced and emerging countries (North-South Trade), particularly offshoring, (ii) the impact of tax base mobility on tax competition and (iii) the globalization-driven constraints on social policies and labor market institutions. Those three strands of analysis and the related literature have been reviewed in a number of surveys but have not been combined to provide an extensive study of the impact of their interactions on inequality. This volume fills that gap. Providing a general diagnosis of the globalization-inequality nexus within advanced economies and opening new avenues for research and potential reforms, this book will be of interest to researchers and students of economics and the social sciences.

1. Globalization and Inequality: The Facts.- 2. Trade and Inequality.- 3. Mobility of Tax Bases and Tax Competition.- 4. Anti-inequality policies and globalization.- 5. Further researches and policy implications.

Joël Hellier is Emeritus Professor of Economics at University of Lille and University of Nantes, France. His research interests include economics of globalization, economics of inequality, intergenerational mobility, economics of education, and labor economics.