Furthermore, while in many EU countries, income growth has been fairly uniform across deciles between the second and the ninth, in Sweden, growth has been faster the higher the income decile, pointing to some polarisation of the income distribution (Figure 3, Panel B). Relative poverty has increased with those w'ithout a job and children now facing a higher risk of poverty (Figure 3, Panel C). The authors would like to thank Miige Adalet McGowan, Olof Aslund, Andrew Dean.