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departure of wages and employment of low-skilled workers between Miami and its control after 1979. The result is robust to …
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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...
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Peri and Yasenov (2019) exploit a natural experiment, the Mariel boatlift of 1980, to analyse the impact of immigration on wages and other labour market outcomes of natives. The authors find no impact of this (immigrant) labour supply shock on the wages of local workers. These results are...
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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...
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Between 1999 and 2004 Switzerland opened its border region (BR) to cross-border workers (CBW), who are foreign … residents commuting to Switzerland for work. In this paper, we exploit the timing of implementation and the fact that CBW … increased their employment within 20 minutes of commuting time from the border by four to five percentage points. The increased …
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Between 1999 and 2004 Switzerland opened its border region (BR) to cross-border workers (CBW), who are foreign … residents commuting to Switzerland for work. In this paper, we exploit the timing of implementation and the fact that CBW … increased their employment within 20 minutes of commuting time from the border by four to five percentage points. The increased …
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departure of wages and employment of low-skilled workers between Miami and its control after 1979. The result is robust to …
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