European Integration and Income Inequality
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4522017 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J Beckfield (0000-0002-2538-3672, University of Chicago, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 71 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 964-985 |
| Publication date | 2006-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Sociological Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-1224 • E-ISSN: 1939-8271 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/000312240607100605 |
| OpenAlex | W2027940997 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 108 |
| References cited | 78 |
Globalization has attained a prominent place on the sociological agenda, and stratification scholars have implicated globalization in the increased income inequality observed in many advanced capitalist countries. But sociologists have given much less attention to a different yet increasingly prevalent form of internationalization: regional integration. Regional integration, or the construction of international economy and polity within negotiated regions, should matter for income inequality. Regional economic integration should raise income inequality, as workers are exposed to international competition and labor unions are weakened. Regional political integration should also raise income inequality, but through a different mechanism: political integration should drive welfare state retrenchment in market-oriented regional polities as states adopt liberal policies in a context of fiscal austerity. Evidence from random-effects and fixedeffects models of income inequality in Western Europe supports these arguments. The results show that regional integration explains nearly half of the increase in income inequality in the Western European countries analyzed in this article. The effects of regional integration on income inequality are net of several controls, including two established measures of globalization, suggesting that a sociological approach to regional integration adds to our understanding of rising income inequality in Western Europe
Austerity · Context (archaeology · Development economics · Economic inequality · Economic integration · Economic policy · Economic system · Economics · European integration · European union · Geography · Globalization · Income distribution · Income inequality metrics · Inequality · International economics · International trade · Market economy · Political science · Politics · Polity · Regional Integration · Retrenchment · Social inequality · Welfare state · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Regional Development and Policy · Social Policy and Reform Studies
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