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In this chapter, the economic foundation of measuring inter-industry wage differentials, as in Krueger and Summers (1988) with an emphasis on “efficiency wages” and migration wage impacts on natives, e.g. Altonji and Card (1991), Borjas (1987), etc is provided. For both literatures, several competing theoretical frameworks will examined, and the empirical findings for Germany and the United States will be compared. The appropriateness of the underlying assumptions, approximations, and modelling of the empirical studies is also of interest here.
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DeNew, J.P.H. (1996). Economic Framework. In: Migration and the Inter-Industry Wage Structure in Germany. Population Economics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-80142-6_2
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