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The Long-run Determinants of Inequality: What Can We Learn from Top Income Data?

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

This paper studies determinants of income inequality using a newly assembled panel of 16 countries over the entire twentieth century. We focus on three groups of income earners: the rich (P99-100), the upper middle class (P90-99), and the rest of the population (P0-90). The results show that...

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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 … characteristics shared by all countries. A historical account of the evolution of the wealth distribution in developed countries is … transition. The data used originates from the taxation of wealth and estates. …

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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, starting from levels of inequality approximately equal to those in other Western countries at the time, the income share of the Swedish top decile drops sharply over the first...

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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 … the distribution of income and wealth over time? Are there common trends across countries or over the path of devel …-called top income literature and new evidence on wealth concentration. The picture that emerges shows that inequality was …

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Common Trends and Shocks to Top Incomes – A Structural Breaks Approach

Roine, Jesper; Waldenström, Daniel - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2009

In this paper we use newly compiled top income share data to estimate common breaks and trends across countries over the twentieth century. By using the most re-cent structural breaks techniques, our approach both confirms previous notions and offers new insights. In particular, the division...

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Effects of Changes in Payroll Taxes – Theory and U.S./Swedish Experiences

Holmlund, Bertil - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1981

This paper includes theoretical and empirical analyses of some effects of changes in payroll taxes. First, the implication of the standard partial equilibrium analysis is explored in Section II. In particular, the relationship between statutory and economic incidence are clarified and the...

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Economic Decline in Russia: Disaster or Creative Destruction?

Fölster, Stefan; Trofimov, Georgi - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1994

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The Bright but Right View? A New Type of Evidence on Entrepreneurial Optimism

Bengtsson, Ola; Ekeblom, Daniel - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2014

Existing empirical evidence suggests that entrepreneurs are optimists, a finding researchers often interpret as evidence of a behavioral bias in entrepreneurial decision-making. We revisit this claim by analyzing an unusually large survey dataset (180,814 responses) that allows us to create a...

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Swedish-Vietnamese Relations: Shifting Terms of Cooperation

Andersson, Thomas - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1994

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The Telecommunication Market: A Survey of Theory and Empirics

Segendorff, Björn - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1995

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Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818537