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Lee Rainwater

Discussion paper

Comparing living standards across nations: real incomes at the top, the bottom and the middle


What is the distribution of real income within as well as across countries? The purpose of this paper is to try to answer this question by presenting estimates of the real purchasing power (PPP) parity-adjusted distribution of disposable income for a number of countries.

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