Borjas Continues to Challenge Conventional Immigration Narrative
Published:
Thu, May 24th 2018 @ 9:55 pm EDT by Eric Ruark
In 1990, David Card, then an economics professor at Princeton University, published a paper in which he examined the effect of the Cuban Mariel Boatlift of 1980 on the labor market in Miami. Despite his finding that the influx had increased the size of the labor force in the Miami metropolitan area by 7%, Card concluded that this “had virtually no effect on the wage rates of less-skilled non-Cuban workers,†and “there is no evidence of an increase in unemployment among less-skilled blacks or other non-Cuban workers.â€
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