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dc.contributor.authorRoine, Jesperen
dc.contributor.authorWaldenström, Danielen
dc.date.accessioned2012-03-28T13:09:46Z-
dc.date.available2012-03-28T13:09:46Z-
dc.date.issued2007-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/56305-
dc.description.abstractWe study the development of wealth concentration in Sweden over 130 years, from the begin-ning of industrialization until present day. Our series are based on a wide array of new evi-dence 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 concentration was at a historically high level in the agrarian state and that it did not change much during early in-dustrialization. From World War I up until about 1950, the richest percentile lost ground to the rest of the top wealth decile where relatively income rich households accumulated new wealth. In the postwar period, the entire top decile lost out relative to the rest of the population, much due to the spread of owner-occupied housing. Around 1980, wealth compression stopped and inequality increased. We introduce new ways of approximating the effects of international flows and find that the recent increase in Swedish wealth inequality is likely to be larger than what official estimates suggest.en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisher|aStockholm School of Economics, The Economic Research Institute (EFI) |cStockholmen
dc.relation.ispartofseries|aSSE/EFI Working Paper Series in Economics and Finance |x677en
dc.subject.jelD14en
dc.subject.jelD31en
dc.subject.jelN33en
dc.subject.jelN34en
dc.subject.ddc330en
dc.subject.keywordWealth concentrationen
dc.subject.keywordWealth distributionen
dc.subject.keywordInequalityen
dc.subject.keywordIncome distributionen
dc.subject.keywordSwedenen
dc.subject.keywordWelfare stateen
dc.subject.keywordPension wealthen
dc.subject.keywordAugmented wealthen
dc.subject.stwVermögensverteilungen
dc.subject.stwEinkommensverteilungen
dc.subject.stwAlterssicherungen
dc.subject.stwEntwicklungen
dc.subject.stwSozialstaaten
dc.subject.stwWirtschaftsgeschichteen
dc.subject.stwSchwedenen
dc.titleWealth concentration over the path of development: Sweden, 1873 - 2005-
dc.typeWorking Paperen
dc.identifier.ppn549582681en
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen

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