| "The question we set out to answer in this study is how the Swedish personal wealth distribution has evolved since 2007. This year, a right-wing party alliance was elected after a long period of Social Democratic rule and among its first reforms was to repeal the wealth tax ... Our main result concerning wealth inequality in Sweden is that it appears to have increased since 2007. The recorded rise in the Gini coefficient and top wealth shares is about ten percent" https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/roiw.12294 Note that the study above only analyzed wealth in Sweden over the time period of 2007 (when the wealth tax was repealed, not 2005 as I erroneously wrote in my earlier comment) and 2012. Germany and Norway don't share a comparable Wealth Gini (like I said above, it's WEALTH Gini, not Income Gini). While absolute wealth inequality did grow in both NO and DE since 2008, SE's Wealth Concentration also at a much higher starting position than either NO and SE in 2008 2008 - 2019
DE 0.667 0.816NO 0.663 0.798 SE 0.742 0.867 2008 - https://www.nber.org/papers/w15508 2019 - https://www.credit-suisse.com/media/assets/corporate/docs/ab... And finally, roughly the same old money families/nobility that existed in Sweden c. 1700 continue to have a roughly similar impact in Sweden c. 2012 from a social mobility standpoint. https://faculty.econ.ucdavis.edu/faculty/gclark/papers/Swede... |