The Association Between Income and Globalization Opinion

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Abstract: The rapid advancement of globalization over the past century has transformed people’s lives across the globe. Economic globalization has been shown to impact one’s quality of life with evidence suggesting that widening income inequality is associated with globalization. While researchers have analyzed the impact of globalization on individuals’ lives, few have explored a population’s opinions of globalization. Therefore, this study aims to assess whether people with varying annual family incomes are associated with agreeing or disagreeing that globalization is a net positive in the United States. A Chi-squared test revealed no statistical significance between income bracket and globalization opinion (p-values >.05). However, logistic regression revealed a significant relationship between income level and globalization opinion for all income brackets except for $20k-$60k. In analyzing the effect of one’s education level on the association between income and perception of globalization. Education is not a moderating variable, and there is only a significant relationship between a positive view of globalization and an income level of $60k-$100k. Ultimately, being lower or higher income may not affect one’s perception of globalization, but more work should be done to more closely examine the relationship between income inequality and a person’s perception of globalization.

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