Given differences in public saving programs between Sweden and the United States, an examination of household private … wealth accumulation in these two countries can be enlightening. In this paper we examine wealth inequality and mobility in … Sweden and the United States over the past decade. We show that wealth inequality has been significantly greater in the U …

We study the development of wealth concentration in Sweden over 130 years, from the beginning of industrialization … until present day. Our series are based on a wide array of new evidence from estate- and wealth tax data, estimates of … foreign and domestic family firm-wealth and of pension and social security wealth. We find that the Swedish wealth …

This paper provides a descriptive analysis of wealth ownership and wealth inequality in Latin American countries, using …, land, and financial assets, and find very high wealth concentration in all these types of assets, with the partial … exception home ownership. The relevance of informal assets and the historical patterns of wealth accumulation and concentration …

This study examines from a cross-national perspective the importance of inheritance as a source of private wealth … inheriting households own considerably more wealth than non-inheriting households, all other things equal. The wealth gap between … households who received lifetime gifts or bequests and those who did not varies hugely along the distribution of net wealth. At …