in Swedish wealth inequality is likely to be larger than what official estimates suggest. …We study the development of wealth concentration in Sweden over 130 years, from the beginning of industrialization … until present day. Our series are based on a wide array of new evidence from estate- and wealth tax data, estimates of …

This paper reviews the literature on economic inequality and trust. Cross-country studies, within-country studies, and … experiments all suggest that economic inequality exerts a negative influence on trust. Four mechanisms are proposed to explain the … negative relationship: social ties (or networks), inference on social relationships (to see inequality as a signal of …

We present new evidence on the influence of income inequality on generalized trust. Using individual panel data from … relationship between income inequality and trust is particularly strong for people with a strong aversion against income …

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. …

(AIH), the relative income hypothesis (RIH) and the income inequality hypothesis (IIH). The results confirm a non … group is used. Most interestingly, while the IIH predicts that income inequality, independent from individual income, will … affect health negatively, we find higher income inequality to robustly associate with better child health. The results …

This paper studies determinants of income inequality using a newly assembled panel of 16 countries over the entire …

fathers’ income are, if anything, negatively associated with these variables. Wealth, on the other hand, has a significantly …, is a society where transmission remains strong in the very top of the distribution and that wealth is the most likely …

, starting from levels of inequality approximately equal to those in other Western countries at the time, the income share of the …