2014
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0110881
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The Inequality Footprints of Nations: A Novel Approach to Quantitative Accounting of Income Inequality

Abstract: In this study we use economic input-output analysis to calculate the inequality footprint of nations. An inequality footprint shows the link that each country's domestic economic activity has to income distribution elsewhere in the world. To this end we use employment and household income accounts for 187 countries and an historical time series dating back to 1990. Our results show that in 2010, most developed countries had an inequality footprint that was higher than their within-country inequality, meaning t… Show more

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“…After all, humans are part of the 'ecology' of industrial systems. Issues such as income inequality are of concern to both social and ecological sustainability (Alsamawi et al 2014b ). It is therefore important that socio-economic issues such as employment, wages, income inequality, occupational health, bad labour conditions, slavery, war casualties, etc.…”
Section: Merging Of Disciplinesmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…After all, humans are part of the 'ecology' of industrial systems. Issues such as income inequality are of concern to both social and ecological sustainability (Alsamawi et al 2014b ). It is therefore important that socio-economic issues such as employment, wages, income inequality, occupational health, bad labour conditions, slavery, war casualties, etc.…”
Section: Merging Of Disciplinesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Another expression introduced by Lenzen et al 2012 is the word 'implicated' which was used by the authors to indicate a connection between consumption in one country and threat to species in other countries, even though it would be diffi cult to prove a direct causal relationship between the two (a point also made with respect to CO 2 emissions embodied in trade, see Jakob and Marschinski 2013 ). The term 'implicated' is again used in Alsamawi et al 2014b to indicate the inequality associated with the trade of commodities between nations.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In this work, we link employment affected by corruption with centers of consumption by using multiregional input-output (MRIO) analysis (Leontief and Strout 1963). This method has been used previously at multiple scales (Hubacek et al 2014) for analyzing the supply-chain effects of international trade on various environmental and social indicators, such as carbon dioxide emissions Kanemoto et al 2014), scarce water (Lenzen et al 2013a), water use (Feng et al 2011), air pollutants , land use (Hubacek and Giljum 2003;Yu et al 2013), material use (Giljum and Hubacek 2004;Wiedmann et al 2015), species threats (Lenzen et al 2012b; Moran et al 2016), bad labor practices (Simas et al 2014a(Simas et al , 2014b, social inequality (Alsamawi et al 2014;Wiedmann 2016), occupational health and safety (Alsamawi, 2015), civil war , and global value chains (Los et al 2015). It is used in our study to analyze international supplychain effects in terms of corruption.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The I-O approach has since been extended to assess environmental impacts of economic activities (Leontief 1970), such as the assessment of the consequences of global trade on carbon (Hertwich and Peters 2009), biodiversity (Lenzen et al 2012b), and material footprints (Wiedmann et al 2013), to name a few notable pioneering, globally comprehensive applications. Assessing social impacts using the I-O tool has also recently gained traction in the area of labor and inequality (Alsamawi et al 2014a(Alsamawi et al , 2014bSimas et al 2014;Murray et al 2015). Studies of the likes of Alsamawi and colleagues (2014a) that use the I-O approach in exposing socioeconomic consequences of global trade serve as precedents on the extension of IOA to social footprinting.…”
Section: Methodology and Data Sourcesmentioning
confidence: 99%