Sweden - Growing wealth gap driven by capital income - February 28, 2017

A survey has exposed the country's growing wealth gap, with the number of houses in the middle-income bracket in the country falling in all but four of its municipalities between 2011 and 2015. Experts explained that the growing gap is being driven by earnings from capital, rather than a change in wages. The importance of capital income – mostly concentrated at the top end of wealth distribution – has increased. At the same time, the social security system has not followed general wage developments, which means that those at the lower part of wealth distribution lag behind. However, in terms of wage distribution – which is closely tied to the still relatively centralised collective wage negotiation model – things have hardly changed.

English: http://www.thelocal.se/20170216/swedens-wealth-inequality-exposed ...     

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