Gender Inequality, Economic Development, and Globalization: A State Level Analysis of India

Globalization And Inequality In Different Economic Blocks

Globalization and Income Inequality: Does the Level of Financial Development Matter?

This paper examines the impact of globalization on income inequality in a panel of 78 developed and developing countries over 2002–2015. Moreover, the indirect effect of financial development in the link between globalization and income inequality is also analyzed by incorporating the interaction term between globalization and financial development. The empirical evidence based on the first-dif...

New Population-Level Measures of Economic Dependency and Gender Inequality

Economic dependency is typically understood as a household-level relationship in which shifts toward greater dependency for one member are commensurate with shifts toward less dependency for the other member(s), and equality is defined as equal contributions. We propose a new measure that defines economic dependency separately for men and women and defines gender equality as equal levels of dep...

An Impact of Globalization on Gender Wage Inequality: A case Study of Selected Developing Countries

Globalization may have different impacts on the gender wage gap depending on the specialization and trade pattern as well as the socio-economic situation. The main purpose of this paper is to examine an impact of globalization on gender wage inequality. Specifically, the hypothesis is that globalization reduces gender wage gap. For this, we have employed a panel technique for 21 selected develo...

Confronting Economic Gender Inequality

The expansion of market relations into new arenas, reflecting the bourgeois need to “nestle everywhere, settle everywhere, establish connections everywhere” (Marx and Engels 1998: 39), is not just geographic. Colonization begins at home, as seen in the progressive commodification of women’s previously unpaid labor. Thus, even as women slowly improved the gender division of housework (Bianchi et...