Real Wage Inequality

Enrico Moretti

NBER Working Paper No. 14370
Issued in September 2008

---- Acknowledgements -----

I thank David Autor, Dan Black, David Card, Tom Davidoff, Ed Glaeser, Chang-Tai Hsieh, Matt Kahn, Pat Kline, Douglas Krupka, David Levine, Adam Looney and Krishna Pendakur for insightful conversations, and seminar participants at Banco de Portugal, Berkeley Economics, Berkeley Haas, Bocconi, Bologna, Chicago Harris, Collegio Carlo Alberto, Edinburgh, Federal Reserve Board of Governors, IZA, Milano, Missouri, NBER Summer Institute, Northwestern, Oxford, San Francisco Federal Reserve, Stanford, UCLA, UC Santa Cruz, Toronto, Tulane, UC Merced and Verona, for many useful comments. I thank Emek Basker for generously providing the Accra data on consumption prices. Issi Romen, Mariana Carrera, Justin Gallagher, Jonas Hjort, Max Kasy and Zach Liscow provided excellent research assistance. The views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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