On the role of capital gains in swedish income inequality

Review of Income and Wealth

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 569-587

  Roine, Jesper ^a   Waldenström, Daniel ^b  

^a STOCKHOLM SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Capital gains; Capital income; Income inequality; Sweden; Top incomes; Welfare state

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864767124     PISSN: 00346586     EISSN: 14754991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4991.2011.00475.x     Document Type: Article

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