Roine, Jesper; Waldenström, Daniel - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 2005
This paper presents homogenous series of top income shares in Sweden from 1903 to 2003 using individual tax returns … expansion of the Swedish welfare state. However, unlike the Anglo-Saxon countries, where the recent increases were mainly driven … the Swedish experience looks more like that of continental Europe. Furthermore, we also find that the largest decrease of …