strong economic development in Sweden during the last two decades, namely product market reforms and incentives to innovate …

Sweden is often described as a country where intergenerational social mobility is high, but research also shows that … mobility for an extreme elite group in society: the CEOs of Sweden's 30 largest public firms since 1945. To our knowledge … former and current CEOs who grew up in Sweden and born between the late1800s and 1970. We have information about paternal …

By the late 1960s, real effective taxation of income from individual firm owner-ship in Sweden approached 100 percent …