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

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 …

. Here, the question of whether and when such re-coinage was applied in medieval Sweden is analyzed against the historical … record. A theory of how short-lived coinage systems work is applied to Swedish coinage. It is shown that Sweden adopted …

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 …

We study the impact of the 1918 influenza pandemic on economic performance in Sweden. The pandemic was one of the …-quality administrative data from Sweden, we estimate the eff ects on earnings, capital returns and poverty. We find that the pandemic led to …

. Using a large dataset of matched father-son pairs in Sweden, we find that intergenerational transmission is very strong in … positive association. Our results suggest that Sweden, known for having relatively high intergenerational mobility in general …

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 …

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 …