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The long-run history of income inequality in Denmark: Top incomes from 1870 to 2010
Atkinson, A. B.; Søgaard, J. E. - Economic Policy Research Unit (EPRU), Økonomisk Institut - 2013
We use historical publications and – for more recent years – micro-data from the income tax and wealth tax returns to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010610747
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The Evolution of Top Incomes in an Egalitarian Society; Sweden, 1903–2004
Roine, Jesper; Waldenström, Daniel - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 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 Swedish top decile drops sharply over the first...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005645425
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The Evolution of Top Incomes in an Egalitarian Society: Sweden, 1903–2004
Roine, Jesper; Waldenström, Daniel - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 2006
This study presents new homogenous series of top income shares in Sweden over the period 1903 to 2004. We find that, starting from higher levels of inequality than in other Western countries, the income share of the Swedish top decile drops sharply over the first eighty years of the century. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005649249
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Long-Run Trends in the Distribution of Income and Wealth
Roine, Jesper; Waldenström, Daniel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper reviews the long run developments in the distribution of personal income and wealth. It also discusses … the distribution of income and wealth over time? Are there common trends across countries or over the path of development …-called top income literature and new evidence on wealth concentration. The picture that emerges shows that inequality was …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010764612
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Long run trends in the distribution of income and wealth
Roine, Jesper; Waldenström, Daniel - The Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics and … - 2014
This paper reviews the long run developments in the distribution of personal income and wealth. It also discusses … the distribution of income and wealth over time? Are there common trends across countries or over the path of development …-called top income literature and new evidence on wealth concentration. The picture that emerges shows that inequality was …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010765652
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Long-Run Trends in the Distribution of Income and Wealth
Roine, Jesper; Waldenström, Daniel - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2014
This paper reviews the long run developments in the distribution of personal income and wealth. It also discusses … the distribution of income and wealth over time? Are there common trends across countries or over the path of devel …-called top income literature and new evidence on wealth concentration. The picture that emerges shows that inequality was …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011103287
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Long run trends in the distribution of income and wealth
Roine, Jesper; Waldenström, Daniel - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2014
This paper reviews the long run developments in the distribution of personal income and wealth. It also discusses … the distribution of income and wealth over time? Are there common trends across countries or over the path of development …-called top income literature and new evidence on wealth concentration. The picture that emerges shows that inequality was …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010762002
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Long run trends in the distribution of income and wealth
Roine, Jesper; Waldenström, Daniel - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2014
This paper reviews the long run developments in the distribution of personal income and wealth. It also discusses … the distribution of income and wealth over time? Are there common trends across countries or over the path of devel …-called top income literature and new evidence on wealth concentration. The picture that emerges shows that inequality was …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010762027
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The Rich and the Great Recession
Bakker, Bas B.; Felman, Joshua - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2014
rich followed a similar pattern, the result of wealth effects associated with a boom-bust in asset prices. Indeed, the … top 10 percent account for almost half of income and two-thirds of wealth. In other words, the rich played a critical role …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011105398
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Working For the Few: Political Capture and Economic Inequality
Fuentes-Nieva, Ricardo; Galasso, V. Nicholas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Economic inequality is rapidly increasing in the majority of countries. The wealth of the world is divided in two …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110965