Globalization and the Great U-Turn: Income Inequality Trends in 16 OECD Countries1

By A. Alderson, F. Nielsen. American Journal of Sociology, 2002

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European Integration and Income Inequality (2006, background): “…a regional market by raising the volume of international trade and investment (BenDavid 1993); economic openness raised the likelihood of union decline in the advanced capitalist countries (Western 1997); and income inequality is lower where labor unions are stronger (Alderson and Nielsen 2002).”
Economic grievances and political protest (2018, background): “…in the determinants and consequences of inequality is substantive: after half a century of increasing equality, the 'great U-turn' (Harrison & Bluestone 1988) has reversed the secular trend of declining inequality in most highly developed countries from the 1970s onwards (Alderson & Nielsen 2002).”
Income Inequality in OECD Countries: Data and Explanations (2003, neutral): “According to Alderson and Nielsen, “after four decades of moderating inequality, income inequality in the United States began to increase around 1970. Since then it has risen at a steady rate” (2002, page 1246). They go on to suggest that the upswing has an “international character”. Cornia and Cour”
Trends in Time Allocation: A Cross-Country Analysis (2012, result): “…and earnings distributions increased in all 13 These results are consistent with those in the literature (see Atkinson (2007), Acemoglu (2003), Alderson and Nielsen (2002), Atkinson and Brandolini (2001), Gustafsson and Johansson (1999), and Gottschalk and Smeeding (1997) for cross-country…”
A re-examination of welfare states and inequality in rich nations: How in-kind transfers and indirect taxes change the story (2006, background): “(Alderson & Nielsen, 2002; Gustafsson & Johansson, 1999; Kenworthy, 2004; Moller, Bradley, Huber, Nielsen, & Stephens, 2003).1 Yet in all of these rich countries, close to or more than half of welfare state transfers consist of in-kind benefits such as health insurance, education, child care, elder…”
The causes of rising wage inequality: the race between institutions and technology (2016, background): “To measure howmuch a given independent variable may have affected wage inequality within the history of a single industry, we calculated a coefficient of maximum longitudinal impact (Alderson and Nielsen, 2002).”
The moral economy of inequality: popular views on income differentiation, poverty and wealth (2012, background): “Rising income inequality has been a defining feature of social change in Western societies during the past decades (Gustafsson and Johansson, 1999; Alderson and Nielsen, 2002; OECD, 2008).”
Return of Inequality in Modern Society? Test by Dispersion of Life-Satisfaction Across Time and Nations (2005, background): “Yet this did not happen in all western nations, for instance, income inequality seems to have remained stable in West Germany and to have decreased in Ireland, France and Finland (Alderson and Nielsen, 2002; Ritakallio, 2001).”
The Consequences of Economic Globalization for Affluent Democracies (2007, background): “Alderson & Nielsen (2002) find that outward direct investment, manufacturing imports from developing countries, and immigration exert positive effects on income inequality.”