TY  - BOOK
AU  - Card,David
ED  - National Bureau of Economic Research.
TI  - The Impact of the Mariel Boatlift on the Miami Labor Market
T2  - NBER working paper series
PY  - 1989///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - National Bureau of Economic Research
N1  - August 1989; Hardcopy version available to institutional subscribers
N2  - This paper presents an empirical analysis of the effect of the Mariel Boatlift on the Miami labor market, focusing on the wages and unemployment rates of less-skilled workers. The Mariel immigrants increased the population and labor force of the Miami metropolitan area by 7 percent. Most of the immigrants were relatively unskilled: as a result, the proportional increase in labor supply to less-skilled occupations and industries was much greater. Nevertheless, an analysis of wages of non-Cuban workers over the 1979-85 period reveals virtually no effect of the Mariel influx. Likewise, there is no indication that the Boatlift lead to an increase in the unemployment rates of less-skilled blacks or other non-Cuban workers. Even among the Cuban population wages and unemployment rates of earlier immigrants were not substantially effected by the arrival of the Mariels
UR  - https://www.nber.org/papers/w3069
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w3069
ER  -