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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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320172
We study the development of wealth concentration in Sweden over 130 years, from the begin-ning 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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281378
, escalating income inequality. Policy simulations indicate government support measures mitigated wage income reduction and … unemployment rise, yet they contributed to income inequality under certain conditions. These results provide insight into the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014316892
, escalating income inequality. Policy simulations indicate government support measures mitigated wage income reduction and … unemployment rise, yet they contributed to income inequality under certain conditions. These results provide insight into the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014310061
The objective of this paper is to study the dynamics of the wealth distribution over the path of economic development. More specifically, we are interested in distinguishing between changes which seem to be country specific and characteristics shared by all countries. A historical account of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320107
The objective of this paper is to study the dynamics of the wealth distribution over the path of economic development. More specifically, we are interested in distinguishing between changes which seem to be country specific and characteristics shared by all countries. A historical account of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284643
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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005771090
We study the development of wealth concentration in Sweden over 130 years, from the begin-ning 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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005190863
The objective of this paper is to study the dynamics of the wealth distribution over the path of economic development. More specifically, we are interested in distinguishing between changes which seem to be country specific and characteristics shared by all countries. A historical account of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005645360
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320074