We study the development of wealth concentration in Sweden over 130 years, from the beginning of industrialization … inequality increased. We introduce new ways of approximating the effects of international flows and find that the recent increase … in Swedish wealth inequality is likely to be larger than what official estimates suggest. …

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 …

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 …. When included, Sweden's experience resembles that in the U.S. and the U.K. with sharp increases in top incomes. Excluding …

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 … this severely underestimates the actual increase in inequality and, in particular, top income shares during recent decades …

We analyze the rate of formation, the characteristics, and the performance of different types of new firms in Sweden … over a decade. Comparisons to Denmark, Brazil, and the U.S. suggest that the environment for new firm formation in Sweden …

industry and the role that globalization plays in that process. Using matched worker-firm data from Sweden, we find strong …

exceptionalism: Sweden became rich because of well-functioning capitalist institutions, and inequality was low before the expansion …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 …