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Inherited Wealth over the Path of Development : Sweden, 1810–2010
Ohlsson, Henry - 2014
of inherited wealth in Sweden over the past two hundred years. The trends in Sweden are similar to those in France and … was similar to that in the U.S., but the savings and growth rates were much lower in Sweden than in the U.S. Rapid income … several potential explanations related to the Swedish welfare state and pension system. Sweden was “un-European” during the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013039645
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Long-Run Changes in the Concentration of Wealth: An Overview of Recent Findings
Waldenström, Daniel; Ohlsson, Henry; Roine, Jesper - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320107
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Carnegie visits nobel: Do inheritances affect labor and capital income?
Elinder, Mikael; Erixson, Oscar; Ohlsson, Henry - 2011
The objective of this paper is to study when and how much labor supply and savings of heirs respond to inheritances. We estimate fixed effects models following direct heirs, inheriting in 2004, during the years 2000-2008 using Swedish panel data. Our first main result is that the more the heir...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320267