Inequality and Unemployment in a Global Economy

Elhanan Helpman, Oleg Itskhoki, Stephen Redding

NBER Working Paper No. 14478
Issued in November 2008

---- Acknowledgements -----

Work on this paper started when Redding was a Visiting Professor at Harvard University. Helpman thanks the National Science Foundation for financial support. Redding thanks the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics for financial support. We are grateful to Pol Antràs, Gilles Duranton, Gene Grossman, Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, Dan Trefler, and seminar participants at LSE, Toronto and Yale for helpful comments. We are also grateful to Eduardo Morales for excellent research assistance. The usual disclaimer applies. 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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