chapter compares the impact of international trade in intermediate inputs (offshoring) on wage inequality in two distinct but …-contained chapters. All chapters discuss different implications of the growing importance of trade in intermediate inputs. The first …' offshoring decisions and yields two new channels by which offshoring affects wage inequality. Chapter 3 studies the impact of …

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 …