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

Orkideh Gharehgozli () and Vidya Atal

No 775, LIS Working papers from LIS Cross-National Data Center in Luxembourg

Abstract: 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.

JEL-codes: D31 O57 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 17 pages
Date: 2019-10
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Published in A revised version of this paper is published as Gharehgozli, O., & Atal, V. (2020). ‘Big Mac Affordability’ and real-income inequality across countries. Applied Economics Letters, 27(16), 1352–1356. https://doi-org.proxy.bnl.lu/10.1080/13504851.2019.1679342

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