Measuring immigration's effects on labor demand: A reexamination of the Mariel Boatlift

被引：31

作者：

Bodvarsson, Oern B. ^{[1
,2
]}

Van den Berg, Hendrik F. ^{[2
,3
]}

Lewer, Joshua J. ^{[4
]}

机构：

[1] St Cloud State Univ, St Cloud, MN USA

[2] IZA, Bonn, Germany

[3] Univ Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68583 USA

[4] Bradley Univ, Peoria, IL 61625 USA

来源：

LABOUR ECONOMICS | 2008年 / 15卷 / 04期

关键词：

immigration; consumption; wages; channels; retail;

D O I：

10.1016/j.labeco.2008.04.003

中图分类号：

F [经济];

学科分类号：

02 ;

摘要：

Why do immigration shocks tend to have benign effects on native wages? One reason is that immigrants as consumers contribute to the demand for their services. We model an economy where workers spend their wages on a locally produced good, then test it via a reexamination of the 1980 "Mariel Boatlift" using Wacziarg's Channel Transmission methodology. Current Population Survey data on workers in 9 different retail labor markets and Survey of Buying Power data on retail spending by consumers in Miami and four comparison cities are used. We find strong evidence that the Mariel Boatlift augmented labor demand. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

引用

页码：560 / 574

页数：15

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