NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE LABOR MARKET EFFECTS OF A REFUGEE WAVE: APPLYING THE SYNTHETIC CONTROL METHOD TO THE MARIEL BOATLIFT

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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES BALANCING , REGRESSION , DIFFERENCE-IN-DIFFERENCES AND SYNTHETIC CONTROL METHODS : A SYNTHESIS (2016, unknown): “3 The Mariel Boatlift Application In the final application we analyze the effect of Mariel Boatlift on the logarithm of weekly wages using the data from Peri and Yasenov [2015].(2) Table 3 and Figure 5 report the results obtained for the subpopulation from 16 to 61 years old.”
Why Has Regional Income Convergence in the U.S. Declined (2017, unknown): “19 There is considerable debate about the impact of immigrants on local wages (e.g. Card, 1990; Borjas, 2017; Peri and Yasenov, 2015 ), with some researchers arguing that immigrants are substitutes for native labor and others arguing that they are complements.”
Immigrants, Productivity, and Labor Markets (2016, methodology): “More recently, local productive externalities of scientists and engineers have been specifically measured (Peri et al. 2015) and the local multiplier effects of high human capital jobs have been found (Moretti and Thulin, 2013).”