Studies have reached conflicting conclusions regarding the labor market effects of
exogenous refugee waves such as the Mariel Boatlift in Miami. The authors show that …

It is often assumed that refugees in the US are at an economic disadvantage compared to
other immigrants. A number of hypotheses have been postulated to explain this 'refugee …

Against the background of political turmoil in the Middle-East, Europe faces an
unprecedented surge in asylum applications. In analyzing the economic impact of this …

This article brings a new perspective to the analysis of the wage effects of the Mariel boatlift
crisis, in which an estimated 125,000 Cuban refugees migrated to Florida between April and …

We apply the synthetic control method to reexamine the labor market effects of the Mariel
Boatlift, first studied by David Card (1990). This method improves on previous studies by …

We compare two approaches to analyzing the effects of immigration on the labor market and
find that the estimated effect of immigration on US native labor outcomes depends critically …

A point of contention in the refugee crisis involves possible adverse effects on host
communities associated with poor, low-skilled migrants with low host-community language …

Using data from the Current Population Survey, this paper describes the effect of the Mariel
Boatlift of 1980 on the Miami labor market. The Mariel immigrants increased the Miami labor …

Why do immigration shocks tend to have benign effects on native wages? One reason is that
immigrants as consumers contribute to the demand for their services. We model an economy …

This paper analyzes how the implicit difference in time horizons between refugees and
economic immigrants affects subsequent human capital investments and wage assimilation …