SEMINARIO EXTERNO DE INVESTIGACIÓN

Dr. Paul Segal is a Senior Lecturer in Economics. He is an economist researching global inequality and poverty, the economics of resource-rich countries, and the economic history of Argentina and Mexico. He is a Visting Research Fellow at the International Inequalities Institute at the LSE, where he also contributes to the Atlantic Fellows Programme. Since completing his DPhil at Nuffield College, Oxford, Paul has been a Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies and Lecturer in Economics at the University of Sussex. Prior to his doctoral studies, he was a Research Fellow at Harvard University, working on global inequality, and a Consultant Economist at the United Nations Development Programme (as part of the core team writing the Human Development Report 2002).
He was also a Leverhulme Research Fellow, working on new approaches to inequality, a Visiting Scholar at the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE), Mexico City, and a Visiting Scholar at the National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
For teaching, Paul uses CORE: The Economy, a new approach to teaching economics based on recent developments in economics and other social sciences, that grounds economic interactions in society, institutions and history.

"Inequality as Entitlements over Labour"
The modern study of economic inequality is based on the distribution of entitlements over goods and services. But social commentators at least since Rousseau have been concerned with a different aspect of economic inequality: that it implies that one person is entitled to command the labour of another person for their own consumption purposes. I call this inequality as entitlements over labour. I propose measuring entitlements over labour by calculating the extent to which top income groups can afford to buy the labour of others for the purpose of their personal consumption. Unlike standard inequality measures, this measure is not welfarist, but instead has its normative basis in relations of hierarchy and domination between people. I estimate entitlements over labour in two rich and two middle-income countries and argue that inequality as entitlements over labour is both socially and politically salient, capturing a side of inequality neglected by standard measures.

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