Sweden's welfare commitment is one of the most extensive of all high-income countries. Total social expenditures in Sweden - public and private - on pensions, health care and sickness insurance, family policy, unemployment insurance and employment services, and benefits and care services for the...

The development of income inequality in Sweden up to 1998 is described and analyzed using yearly data focusing on the 1990s when average income fell rapidly and unemployment sky rocketed. Inequality in equivalent disposable income increased during the 1990s as during most of the 1980s....