The impact of globalization on inequality

A presentation by Prof. J. Silber

In the frame of the Lecture series  : Inequality and …?*, Prof. Jacques Silber from the Bar-Ilan University (Israel) gave a presentation in our Institute titled: “Inequality and Globalization ». What type of inequality should we take a look at when analyzing world inequality and how did inequality vary over time? Does globalization refer to the international convergence of prices or real wages, to the increase in the volume of trade, the decline in transportation costs and trade restrictions or to the rise in information flows (social globalization)? What was the impact on inequality of technological change and institutional factors, such as the decline in the union coverage, in centralized collective bargaining and labor market regulations? Empirical evidence has been presented on these various issues, in particular on the impact of globalization on inequality. 

Jacques Silber is Emeritus Professor of Economics at Bar-Ilan University, Israel. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago (1975) and is a specialist of the measurement of income inequality and poverty as well as of the economics of discrimination and segregation in the labor market. He is the author of more than hundred scientific papers published in international academic journals and of several books, among which a Handbook on Income Inequality Measurement, The Measurement of Segregation and Discrimination in the Labor Force (with Yves Flückiger ), The Many Dimensions of Poverty and Quantitative Approaches to Multidimensional Poverty Measurement (with Nanak Kakwani).

Jacques Silber was the founding Editor of the Journal of Economic Inequality (published by Springer) of which he was the Editor-in-Chief for seven years and is the Editor of a book series entitled Economic Studies in Inequality, Social Exclusion and Well-Being (Springer). He has also edited special issues of the Journal of Econometrics, Economica, World Development, the Review of Income and Wealth, Estudios Economicos and Research on Economic Inequality.

 * The University of Luxembourg’s the PEARL team has established the lecture series in collaboration with CREA, the Economists Club of Luxembourg, the European Investment Bank Institute (EIB Institute), the European Commission, the Fonds National de la Recherche (FNR), LIS, LISER and STATEC.