erences in the distribution of income and wages using county-level data from Germany. Chapter 2 analyzes the impact of the so …-called Hartz reforms on income inequality in German regions. Chapter 3 investigates the long-term effect of university openings on … the wage distribution in the surrounding area. Chapters 4 and 5 turn to the political consequences of regional income …

unclear how these effects map onto changes of the wage distribution. I document the movement of foreign-born workers in the U ….S. wage distribution, showing that, since 1980, they have become increasingly overrepresented in the bottom. Downgrading of …-form quantile treatment effects by constructing a ceteris paribus counterfactual wage distribution with lower immigration levels …

distribution, while employment in the middle part of the distribution has stagnated or declined. This process of job polarization …

, this paper summarizes research findings on the relationship between urbanization, urban-rural inequality, and poverty, and … provides further empirical evidence on the role of urbanization and government policies in urban poverty. Several conclusions … can be drawn from. First, urbanization has a significant effect on reducing both poverty of rural residents and poverty of …

relevance of functional distribution in terms of explaining personal distribution underscores the importance of our results for … understanding recent increases in inequality. The empirical analysis performed herein involves a panel of 38 manufacturing and …