Inequality and globalisation: Analysis of European countries

Sánchez-López, Celia; Aceytuno, María Teresa; Paz-Bañez, Manuela A. De

doi:10.14254/2071-789x.2019/12-4/5

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“…The end of the twentieth century saw a dynamic development of globalization processes [1][2][3]. The changes caused by the progressing globalization mainly concern the increase in interdependence between economies, changes in the functioning of selected markets and institutional changes [4][5][6][7][8].…”

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Energy Transition in Poland—Assessment of the Renewable Energy Sector

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The topic of the article considers the functioning of the renewable energy (RE) sector in Poland. This is really important in the context of the energy transition of the national economy because it influences the creation of modern technologies and increases the competitiveness and innovation of the country. Poland is in a process of energy transition where the RE sector has been developing for two decades. The authors aimed to research the RE sector improvement possibilities in Poland, including the influence of this sector on chosen social and economic aspects. Because of this research’s aim a critical situation assessment of RE in Poland was conducted and a survey of a group of experts in this field was also involved. Legal, physical and mental determinants and their influence on RE sector were looked into. In the legal determinant context a necessity to simplify relevant legislation acts in Poland was found. Undoubtedly there is a need to improve several legal acts, including the Distance Act. In physical determinants it was found that solar, wind and biomass energy have the biggest chances for development. In the case of mental determinants the authors paid attention to the need of educating the public about using and obtaining energy. It is also important to make people aware how the RE sector influences the low emission economy positively. This will improve the creation of new jobs and reduce the emissions of harmful substances to the environment.

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Energy Transition in Poland—Assessment of the Renewable Energy Sector

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“…Income inequality may be measured using a variety of indicators: the Gini coefficient, decile ratios, quintile ratios, top income shares, bottom income shares, the Palma ratio, the Atkinson index, the Theil index, the Generalised entropy index. We follow researchers Agnello et al (2012), Pérez-Moreno and Angulo-Guerrero (2016), Asteriou et al (2014), Kunieda et al (2014), Sánchez-López et al (2019 who investigate the nexus among globalisation and income inequality and use the net Gini index for income inequality measurement. Moreover, Sánchez-López et al (2019, p. 89) stress that "in order to make results comparable to those published in the literature" they use the Gini index after social transfers.…”

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An investigation of the nexus between globalisation dimensions and income inequality

Tamašauskienė¹,

Žičkienė²

2021

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The objective of the article is to explore the nexus between changes of various globalisation dimensions, defined by either policy (de jure) or outcomes (de facto), and the rise in income inequality in a panel of 27 EU countries during the period 1998-2017. Research Design & Methods: In order to tackle endogeneity issues, the effect is empirically tested applying the appropriate one-step system generalised method of moments (GMM) technique. Globalisation is measured by the de jure and de facto trade, financial, social, and political KOF globalisation indexes. Income inequality is measured by net Gini. To examine the sensitivity of our findings, we apply the decile ratio and quintile ratio as dependent variables. Findings: We have found several significant results. First, de jure trade and de jure financial globalisation exert a big affirmative influence on income inequality and suggest that changes in trade and financial policy have increased inequality in the EU countries. Second, the results testify that de jure and de facto political globalisation influence income inequality in various ways and opposing directions. Finally, the effect of social globalisation on income inequality lacks statistical significance. Implications & Recommendations: De jure trade and financial globalisation measures which are based on tariffs, trade taxes, trade and investment regulations, etc. increase income inequality. Therefore, policymakers need to rethink their approach to trade and financial globalisation policy and ensure that the increasing benefits of globalisation and rising income would be distributed more equally between different groups of the population. Contribution & Value Added: Economic literature has focused on the effect of different single indicators of economic globalisation on income distribution and inequality, while the effect of various globalisation dimensions is almost nonexistent. Contrary to previous studies, we also distinguish between de jure and de facto indicators of various dimensions of globalisation and reveal that they have diverse impacts on income inequality. Article type:research article

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“…It should be emphasized, however, that in Figures 2 and 3 a different character of development trends is visible for each country in the years 1996-2016. This is a consequence of different levels of advancement of the economic development of countries (see : Cheba, 2015;Simionescu et al, 2017;Szopik-Depczyńska et al, 2017;2018b;Dmytrów & Bieszk-Stolorz, 2019;Skare & Porada-Rochoń, 2019a;2019b;Kuc-Czarnecka et al, 2020), including the level of institutional development (see: Balcerzak, 2020), internationalization of these countries (see : Pietrzak & Łapińska, 2015;Łapinska, 2016;Kurowska-Pysz et al, 2018;Jaklič & Svetličič, 2019;Sánchez-López et al, 2019;Shkolnyk et al, 2019), degree of innovation (see: Szopik-Depczyńska et al, 2018a;Jakimowicz & Rzeczkowski, 2019) or the level of digital economy (see : Balcerzak, 2017;Balcerzak & Pietrzak, 2017;Pietrzak & Ziemkiewicz, 2018a;2018b;Victor et al, 2019).…”

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Assesment of Trends in the Share of Expenditure on Services and Food in the Visegrad Group Member States

Jankiewicz

Pietrzak

2020

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The subject of the article concerns changes in the structure of consumption in the Visegrad countries in the years 1996-2016. The focused was on expenditure on services and food expenditure of households in the Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia and Hungary. The systematic improvement of the socio-economic situation and institutional changes in the Visegrad Group countries resulted in an increase in expenditure on services and food. This contributed to changes in the structure of household consumption, where the share of expenditure on services in final expenditure increased in the examined period in each of the countries studied, and the share of expenditure on food systematically decreased. The main research objective of the article is to identify trends in the share of household expenditure on selected types of goods in their final expenditure. The different trends in the shaping of expenditure shares for goods considered in the article result from their different nature, where services are a higher order good, while food is a good satisfying basic existential needs of man. The study also attempted to determine the limit values of the share of expenditure on services and the share of expenditure on food in the structure of household consumption in selected countries. The limit values were determined for both types of goods on the basis of estimation of parameters of the Tӧrnquist function of the first type. The limit values established in the study should be treated as the saturation level for the share of goods that the countries are able to achieve with the current trends in their socio-economic development.

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Inequality and globalisation: Analysis of European countries

Cited by 16 publications

References 19 publications

Energy Transition in Poland—Assessment of the Renewable Energy Sector

Energy Transition in Poland—Assessment of the Renewable Energy Sector

An investigation of the nexus between globalisation dimensions and income inequality

Assesment of Trends in the Share of Expenditure on Services and Food in the Visegrad Group Member States

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