The Swedish study, led by Mårten Palme provides a rich understanding of inequalities in Sweden, with data that has been harmonised across the 17 countries in the project.
Questions that this work sheds light on include: How have labour market and income inequalities changed in recent decades, and how do they differ between people with different levels of education, between men and women? Which inequalities have increased and which have declined? How are they related to changes in labour market institutions, and social changes? Answering these questions comprehensively requires a cross-national perspective, examining trends not only in one country, but documenting the experience of a range of different countries.
The report “Inequality in Sweden: 1985 – 2020” analyses economic inequalities in coherent framework, which can be easily compared to, and read alongside, other similar report produced for other countries in this project.
The report
Inequality in Sweden 1985-2020 by Arizo Karimi Charlotte Lucke, Marten Palme
The paper Components of the evolution of income inequality in Sweden, 1990–2021 provides a short summary of the key results on trends in working-age inequalities in Sweden, using harmonised data constructed in this project. This paper was published in a special issue of Fiscal Studies in June 2024.