Comparing the Wealth of Nations: Reference Prices and Multilateral Real Income Indexes

J. Peter Neary and B Gleeson

Working Papers from College Dublin, Department of Political Economy-

Abstract: This paper considers the problem of comparing real incomes across countries. The available methods are reviewed and their performance is compared using the raw data underlying the Penn World Table.

Keywords: WEALTH DISTRIBUTION; INCOME DISTRIBUTION (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 20 pages
Date: 1997
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