An influential strand of research has tested for the effects of immigration on natives' wages and employment using … of noted refugee waves such as the Mariel Boatlift in Miami and post-Soviet refugees to Israel. We show that conflicting … composition in subsamples of the Current Population Survey extracts. This compositional change is specific to Miami, unrelated to …

The continuing inflow of hundreds of thousands of refugees into many European countries has ignited much political … the early 1990s; and the exodus of refugees from the former Yugoslavia during the long series of Balkan wars between 1991 …

include: (1) The collapse of the Soviet Union and the massive immigration to Israel which followed; (2) The Great Moderation … the US, and the contagion of the financial crisis to Europe; and (4) The rise of East Asia high-growth economies …

We study the effects of immigration on native welfare in a general equilibrium model featuring two skill types, search … studied, immigration attenuates the effects of search frictions. These gains tend to outweigh the welfare costs of … redistribution. Immigration has increased native welfare in almost all countries. Both high-skilled and low-skilled natives benefit …

identify refugees from the larger group of immigrants to examine the outcomes of refugees relocated to the U.S. Among young … adults, we show that refugees that enter the U.S. before age 14 graduate high school and enter college at the same rate as … natives. Refugees that enter as older teenagers have lower attainment with much of the difference attributable to language …

accumulated insights from the literature on the economic impact of immigration. A crucial lesson from that literature is that any … examining wages in this low-skill group, overturns the finding that Mariel did not affect Miami's wage structure. The wage of … high school dropouts in Miami dropped dramatically, by 10 to 30 percent, suggesting an elasticity of wages with respect to …

market impact of immigration. My recent reappraisal (Borjas, 2015) revealed that even the most cursory reexamination implied … and lack a high school diploma, this very large population of high school students is systematically misclassified as high …

the labor market impact of immigration, and of the “stylized fact” that immigration might not have much impact on the wage …-Hispanic prime-age men examined in my paper does not correctly represent what happened to wages in post-Mariel Miami. Specifically …