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Wealth-Income Ratios in a Small, Late-Industrializing, Welfare-State Economy: Sweden, 1810–2014

This paper uses new data on Swedish national wealth over a period of two hundred years to study whether the patterns in wealth-income ratios previously found by Piketty and Zucman (2014) for some very rich and large Western economies extend to smaller countries that were historically backward and developed a different set of political and economic institutions during the twentieth century. The findings point to both similarities and differences. In the pre-industrial era, Sweden had much lower wealth levels than the rest of Europe, and the main explanation is that the Swedes were too poor to save their income. Over the twentieth century, Swedish aggregate trends and levels are much more similar to those of the rest of Europe, but the structure of national wealth differs. In Sweden, government wealth grew much faster and became more important, not least through its relatively large public pension system. This suggests an explicit role of historical economic and political institutions for the long-run evolution of wealth-income ratios.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 9408

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Distribution: General
Measurement and Data on National Income and Product Accounts and Wealth; Environmental Accounts
Institutions and the Macroeconomy
Economic History: Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy: General, International, or Comparative
Thema
wealth-income ratios
national wealth
household portfolios
pension wealth
welfare state
institutions
economic history

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Waldenström, Daniel
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2015

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Waldenström, Daniel
  • Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Entstanden

  • 2015

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