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""Big Mac Real"" Income Inequality : A Multinational Study

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  • Orkideh Gharehgozli
  • Vidya Atal

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Using the Big Mac Index, we offer a simple approach to study the real income inequality. We provide a multidimensional real income inequality analysis by exploring the Coefficient of Variation and the Big Mac Affordability of households across all income deciles of 28 countries for years 2000 to 2013.

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  • Orkideh Gharehgozli & Vidya Atal, 2019. """Big Mac Real"" Income Inequality : A Multinational Study," LIS Working papers 775, LIS Cross-National Data Center in Luxembourg.
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    1. Orkideh Gharehgozli & Vidya Atal, 2020. "‘Big Mac Affordability’ and real-income inequality across countries," Applied Economics Letters, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 27(16), pages 1352-1356, September.

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    • D31 - Microeconomics - - Distribution - - - Personal Income and Wealth Distribution
    • O57 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - Comparative Studies of Countries

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