Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/175068 
Year of Publication: 
2016
Series/Report no.: 
IFN Working Paper No. 1131
Publisher: 
Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN), Stockholm
Abstract: 
This paper presents new estimates of wealth inequality in Sweden during 2000-2012, linking wealth register data up to 2007 and individually capitalized wealth based on income and property tax registers for the period thereafter when a repeal of the wealth tax stopped the collection of individual wealth statistics. We find that wealth inequality increased after 2007 and that more unequal bank holdings and apartment ownership appear to be important drivers. We also evaluate the performance of the capitalization method by contrasting its estimates and their dispersion with observed stocks in register data up to 2007. The goodness-of-fit varies tremendously across assets and we conclude that although capitalized wealth estimates may well approximate overall inequality levels and trends, they are highly sensitive to assumptions and the quality of the underlying data sources.
Subjects: 
Wealth distribution
Capitalization method
Investment income method
Gini co-efficient
Top wealth shares
Great Recession
JEL: 
D31
H2
N32
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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