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The authors thank Helen Hughson, Arnaud Dyèvre, Timothy Monteath, and Ioannis Papadakis for outstanding research assistance; the entire HMRC Datalab team—especially Yee Wan Yau, Alastair Currie, James Dainty, and Marius Morkunas—for insights and support; and Sascha Becker, Brian Bell, Michael Best, Sandy Black, Richard Blundell, Oren Danieli, Mirko Draca, Christian Dustmann, James Fenske, Bill Kerr, Wojciech Kopczuk, Brian Kovak, Camille Landais, Imran Rasul, Jan Stuhler, and Owen Zidar for helpful comments. This research was supported by ESRC New Investigator Grant “Top Flight” (Grant No. ES/W001683/1) and ESRC CAGE Research Centre (Grant No. ES/L011719/1); the National Science Foundation (Grant No. SES-1919322); and the Industrial Relations section at Princeton. This work contains statistical data from HMRC, which is Crown Copyright. The research data sets used may not exactly reproduce HMRC aggregates. The use of HMRC statistical data in this work does not imply the endorsement of HMRC in relation to the interpretation or analysis of the information. A previous version of this paper circulated under the title “Importing Inequality. ” No authors are aware of any conflict of interest.

A supplemental appendix is available online at https://doi.org/10.1162/rest_a_01408.