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 … income ; Sweden ; Welfare state. …

This paper presents a critical assessment of the public debate on income and wealth inequality in Sweden. We scrutinize …

, public and national wealth and sectoral saving rates in Sweden over the past two centuries. The paper reviews previous … the modern economic history of Sweden. …

abolished in 2007. It offers a thorough description of the rules concerning valuation of assets, deductions/exemptions and tax … schedules to characterize effective wealth tax schedules for the period 1911–2006. These rules and schedules are used to … calculate marginal and average wealth tax rates for the whole period for a number of differently endowed owners of family firms …

This paper presents new estimates of wealth inequality in Sweden during 2000-2012, linking wealth register data up to … 2007 and individually capitalized wealth based on income and property tax registers for the period thereafter when a repeal … of the wealth tax stopped the collection of individual wealth statistics. We find that wealth inequality increased after …

We use new population-wide register data on inheritances and wealth in Sweden to estimate the causal impact of … Swedish inheritance tax reduced the equalizing inheritance effect but that the redistribution of tax revenues could reverse …

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. Rap-id income … several potential explanations related to the Swedish welfare state and pension system. Sweden was "un-European" during the …

both similarities and differences. During the industrialization era, Sweden's domestic wealth was relatively low because of … similar, but in Sweden government wealth grew more important, not least through its relatively large public pension system …