Distributional Consequences of Economic Globalization

SES-1528703加州大学河滨分校马修·马胡特加尽管进行了20多年的专门研究，但社会科学家们并没有很好地理解发达资本主义国家收入不平等加剧的原因。这个项目综合了关于不平等加剧的两个最常见的研究原因的文献：全球化和体制。它通过对关于经济全球化的分配效应的矛盾发现的解释，促进了这两个文献的发展。这一解释确定了全球化和国家机构相互作用的具体机制，以在时间和空间上产生不同的分配结果。这项研究对这些论点进行了实证审查，将对卢森堡收入研究(LIS)的个人工资数据进行多层次分析。国家科学基金的大部分资金将支持统一具体国家的职业类别，以便比目前更直接地衡量技能和工作场所的权威，因为这两个因素都是生产全球化影响不平等的关键机制。除了推进对先进工业民主国家收入不平等加剧原因的基础研究外，该项目还将对生产全球化对收入不平等的未来影响以及宏观和微观层面的政策选择提供基于证据的评估。同时，这些可以帮助改善生产全球化对收入不平等、低技能劳动力以及未来几十年更普遍的劳动力的影响。

SES-1528703Matthew MahutgaUniversity of California-RiversideThe causes of rising income inequality in advanced capitalist countries are not well understood by social scientists despite more than two decades of dedicated research. This project synthesizes literatures on the two most common researched causes of the increase in inequality: globalization and institutions. It advances both of these literatures by providing an explanation for the paradoxical findings on the distributional effects of economic globalization. This explanation identifies specific mechanisms by which globalization and national institutions interact to produce distinct distributional outcomes across time and space. This study subjects the arguments to empirical scrutiny, a multilevel analysis of the Luxembourg Income Study's (LIS) individual wage data will be conducted. The bulk of NSF funds will support the harmonization of country-specific occupational categories in order to measure skill and work-place authority more directly than is currently possible, because both of these factors are the key mechanisms by which production globalization should affect inequality. In addition to advancing basic research on the causes of rising income inequality among advanced industrial democracies, this project will provide evidence-based assessments of the future implications of production globalization for income inequality, and of policy options at both the macro and micro levels. In tandem, these can help to ameliorate the impact of production globalization on income inequality, low-skill labor, and labor more generally, in the coming decades.