This paper examines whether social spending cushions the effect of globalization on within‐country inequality. Using information on disposable and market income inequality and data on overall social spending, and health and education spending from the ILO and the World Bank/WHO, we analyze whether social spending moderates the association between economic globalization and inequality. The results confirm that economic globalization—especially economic flows—associates with higher income inequality, an effect driven by non‐OECD countries. Health spending is strongly associated with lower inequality, but we find no robust evidence that any kind of social spending negatively moderates the association between economic globalization and inequality.

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社会支出可以缓解全球化的不平等影响吗？

本文研究了社会支出是否可以缓解全球化对国家内部不平等的影响。使用来自国际劳工组织和世界银行/世卫组织的关于可支配收入和市场收入不平等的信息以及总体社会支出以及卫生和教育支出的数据，我们分析了社会支出是否减轻了经济全球化与不平等之间的联系。结果证实，经济全球化，尤其是经济流动，与收入不平等加剧有关，这是由非经合组织国家推动的。卫生支出与不平等程度的降低密切相关，但我们没有强有力的证据表明，任何形式的社会支出都会不利地缓解经济全球化与不平等之间的联系。