Roine, Jesper; Waldenström, Daniel - 2006
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 …