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Capital Income Risk and the Dynamics of the Wealth Distribution

Khieu, Hoang - 2018

In this paper, we develop and numerically solve a model of idiosyncratic labour income and idiosyncratic interest rates to predict the evolution of a wealth distribution over time. Stochastic labour income follows a deterministic growth trend and it fluctuates between a wage and unemployment...

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The Vanishing Bequest Tax : The Comparative Evolution of Bequest Taxation in Historical Perspective

Bertocchi, Graziella - 2007

Several countries have recently abolished or significantly reduced their taxes on bequests. Bequest taxes, on the other hand, were among the first to be introduced when modern systems of taxation were developed at the end of the nineteenth century. We propose an explanation for these facts which...

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How Should Capital Be Taxed? Theory and Evidence from Sweden

Bastani, Spencer - 2018

This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of the role of capital taxation in advanced economies with a focus on the Swedish experience. We synthesize the existing theoretical literature, present facts about the capital stock and its distribution, review current capital tax practices and...

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Trespassing the Threshold of Relevance : Media Exposure and Opinion Polls of the Sweden Democrats, 2006-2010

Bevelander, Pieter - 2011

In September 2010 the anti-immigration party, the Sweden Democrats (SD), crossed the electoral threshold to the Swedish … of the media exposure on fluctuations in opinion polls for political parties; i.e. the media effect. In particular to … media with the results of the SD opinion polls as well as the opinion poll results of all the other parliamentary parties …

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The Religious Affiliation and Anti-Semitism of Secondary School Swedish Youths : A Statistical Analysis of Survey Data from 2003 and 2009

Bevelander, Pieter - 2013

Not only in Sweden, but also in several international studies, it has been shown that a non-negligible proportion of …: Which factors explain anti-Semitism among secondary school youths in Sweden? Is religious affiliation an important factor in … 2009? Using two unique surveys of secondary school students in Sweden for the years 2003 and 2009, we try to address the …

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Young People's Attitudes Towards Muslims in Sweden

Bevelander, Pieter - 2007

Since the 1950's, the Muslim population in Sweden has grown from just a few individuals to approximately 350,000 of …

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Wealth Inequality in Sweden : What Can We Learn from Capitalized Income Tax Data?

Lundberg, Jacob - 2016

This paper presents new estimates of wealth inequality in Sweden during 2000–2012, linking wealth register data up to …

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Inheritance and Wealth Inequality : Evidence from Population Registers

Elinder, Mikael - 2016

We use new population-wide register data on inheritances and wealth in Sweden to estimate the causal impact of …

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The Relationship between Hours of Domestic Services and Female Earnings : Panel Register Data Evidence from a Reform

Halldén, Karin - 2014

In 2007, a tax discount reform in Sweden reduced prices of outsourced domestic services (ODS) by 50 percent. Unlike …

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Stock Market Returns and Consumption

Di Maggio, Marco - 2018

This paper employs Swedish data on households' stock holdings to investigate how consumption responds to changes in stock market returns. We instrument the actual capital gains and dividend payments with past portfolio weights. Unrealized capital gains lead to a marginal propensity to consume...

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