The Impact of the Mariel Boatlift on the Miami Labor Market
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3434722 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Card (0000-0001-6914-6698, University of California, Berkeley, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1990 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 245 |
| Publication date | 1990-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Industrial and Labor Relations Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0019-7939 • E-ISSN: 2162-271X |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2523702 |
| OpenAlex | W2114346262 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 364 |
| References cited | 6 |
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 force by 7%, and the percentage increase in labor supply to less-skilled occupations and industries was even greater because most of the immigrants were relatively unskilled. Nevertheless, the Mariel influx appears to have had virtually no effect on the wages or unemployment rates of less-skilled workers, even among Cubans who had immigrated earlier. The author suggests that the ability of Miami's labor market to rapidly absorb the Mariel immigrants was largely owing to its adjustment to other large waves of immigrants in the two decades before the Mariel Boatlift
Demographic economics · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Immigration · Labour economics · Market impact · Market microstructure · Metropolitan area · Miami · Order (exchange) · Population · Sociology · Unemployment · Unemployment rate · Demography · Finance · Geology · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
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