Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/82674 
Year of Publication: 
2003
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 2003:24
Publisher: 
Uppsala University, Department of Economics, Uppsala
Abstract: 
Influenced by a major tax reform in the beginning of the 1990s and by the exceptional boom in the stock market at the end of this decade the level as well as the inequality of the wealth of Swedish households have increased. The large baby-boom cohorts of the 1940s have been successful in accumulating wealth and they also have large claims on the public pension system. The implicit wealth in the form of these claims dominates private wealth in most Swedish households, and in this paper it is argued that private life-cycle savings have been small in Sweden. Most of these savings have been done though the public pension systems. However, concern about the future viability of the pension systems has probably increased private life-cycle savings in the 1990s.
Subjects: 
Distribution of wealth
tax reform
pension wealth
age-cohort effects
JEL: 
D31
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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