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Wealth Concentration over the Path of Development: Sweden, 1873–2006

Roine, Jesper; Waldenström, Daniel - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2007

We study the development of wealth concentration in Sweden over 130 years, from the beginning of industrialization …

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The Evolution of Top Incomes in an Egalitarian Society; Sweden, 1903–2004

Roine, Jesper; Waldenström, Daniel - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2006

This study presents new homogenous series of top income shares in Sweden over the period 1903–2004. We find that …. When included, Sweden’s experience resembles that in the U.S. and the U.K. with sharp increases in top incomes. Excluding … capital gains, Sweden looks more like the continental European countries where top income shares have remained relatively …

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On the Role of Capital Gains in Swedish Income Inequality

Roine, Jesper; Waldenström, Daniel - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2011

Realized capital gains are typically disregarded in the study of income inequality. We show that in the case of Sweden … surge in capital gains-driven inequality in Sweden since the 1980s. While there are no evident changes in terms of who earns …

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The Rise, Fall and Revival of a Capitalist Welfare State: What are the Policy Lessons from Sweden

Bergh, Andreas - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2011

This paper discusses a number of questions with regard to Sweden’s economic and political development: How did Sweden … become rich? What explains Sweden’s high level of income equality? What were the causes of Sweden’s problems from 1970 to … 1995? How is it possible that Sweden, since the crisis of the early 1990s, is growing faster than most EU countries despite …

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Vem ansvarar för nästa generation?

Eliasson, Gunnar - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1994

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Long-Run Trends in the Distribution of Income and Wealth

Roine, Jesper; Waldenström, Daniel - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2014

This paper reviews the long run developments in the distribution of personal income and wealth. It also discusses suggested explanations for the observed patterns. We try to answer questions such as: What do we know, and how do we know, about the distribution of income and wealth over time? Are...

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Long-Run Changes in the Concentration of Wealth: An Overview of Recent Findings

Waldenström, Daniel; Ohlsson, Henry; Roine, Jesper - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2007

The objective of this paper is to study the dynamics of the wealth distribution over the path of economic development. More specifically, we are interested in distinguishing between changes which seem to be country specific and characteristics shared by all countries. A historical account of the...

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Social Norms and Welfare State Dynamics

Lindbeck, Assar; Nyberg, Sten; Weibull, Jörgen W. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2002

The paper analyses the interaction between economic incentives and work norms in the context of social insurance. If the work norm is endogenous in the sense that it is weaker when the population share of beneficiaries is higher, then voters will choose less generous benefits than otherwise. We...

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The European Unemployment Dilemma

Ljungqvist, Lars; Sargent, Thomas J. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1997

Post World War II European welfare states experienced several decades of relatively low unemployment, followed by a plague of persistently high unemployment since the 1980s. We impute the higher unemployment to welfare states' diminished ability to cope with more turbulent economic times, such...

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Incentives in the Welfare State: Lessons for Would-be Welfare States.

Lindbeck, A. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1996

This paper deals with economic incentives and welfare-state arrangements in OECD countries. This paper emphasises what may be called "dynamic" incentive issues, i.e. incentive effects that envolve over time. The discussion also covers the interplay between incentives and social norms among...

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