analyze the evolution of labor and capital income during the first ten years following self-employment entry. We find that …, while ethnic differences in labor income become smaller over time, ethnic differences in capital income grow stronger during …

This study estimates the impact of financial deregulation on top income shares. Using the novel econometric method of …

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 … the expansion of the welfare state and by 1950 Swedish top income shares were already lower than in other countries. The …

We present new evidence on the influence of income inequality on generalized trust. Using individual panel data from … Swedish counties together with an instrumental variable strategy, we find that differences in disposable income, and … especially differences among people in the bottom half of the income distribution, are associated with lower trust. The …

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 … percentile income share at the expense of the rest of the top decile. Financial development is also pro-rich and the outbreak of …