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Daniel Waldenström

Researcher at Research Institute of Industrial Economics

Publications -  126
Citations -  3086

Daniel Waldenström is an academic researcher from Research Institute of Industrial Economics. The author has contributed to research in topics: Economic inequality & Income shares. The author has an hindex of 26, co-authored 123 publications receiving 2683 citations. Previous affiliations of Daniel Waldenström include Stockholm School of Economics & Paris School of Economics.

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The long-run determinants of inequality : What can we learn from top income data?

TL;DR: The authors studied determinants of income inequality using a newly assembled panel of 16 countries over the entire twentieth century, focusing on three groups of income earners: the rich (P99-100),...
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Long run trends in the distribution of income and wealth

TL;DR: This article reviewed the long run developments in the distribution of personal income and wealth and discussed suggested explanations for the observed patterns, and showed that inequality was historically high almost everywhere at the beginning of the twentieth century.
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The evolution of top incomes in an egalitarian society: Sweden, 1903-2004 ☆

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a homogenous series of top income shares in Sweden over the period 1903-2004, and find that, starting from levels of inequality approximately equal to those in other Western countries at the time, the income share of the Swedish top decile drops sharply over the first eighty years of the twentieth century.
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Intergenerational top income mobility in Sweden: Capitalist dynasties in the land of equal opportunity?

TL;DR: This paper found that intergenerational transmission is very strong at the top of the income distribution, more so for income than for earnings, and that IQ, non-cognitive skills and education of the sons are all unlikely channels in explaining the strong transmission.
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Intergenerational Wealth Mobility and the Role of Inheritance: Evidence from Multiple Generations

TL;DR: In this article, the intergenerational correlations in mid-life wealth across three generations, and a young fourth generation, and examines how much of the parent-child association can be explained by inheritances.