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The Labor Market Effects of a Refugee Wave: Applying the Synthetic Control Method to the Mariel Boatlift / Giovanni Peri, Vasil Yasenov.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Peri, Giovanni.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w21801.
- NBER working paper series no. w21801
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Other Title:
- Labor Market Effects of a Refugee Wave
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2015.
- Summary:
- We apply the Synthetic Control Method to re-examine the labor market effects of the Mariel Boatlift, first studied by David Card (1990). This method improves on previous studies by choosing a control group of cities that best matches Miami's labor market trends pre-Boatlift and providing more reliable inference. Using a sample of non-Cuban high-school dropouts we find no significant difference in the wages of workers in Miami relative to its control after 1980. We also show that by focusing on small sub-samples and matching the control group on a short pre-1979 series, as done in Borjas (2017), one can find large wage differences between Miami and control because of large measurement error.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- December 2015.
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