Question

Assume you are interested in measuring the impacts of the 1980 arrival of Marielitos on Miami’s labor market. To do so, you decide to compare the labor market outcomes of native-born workers in Miami in 1979 to the labor market outcomes of native-born workers in Miami in 1981. Explain possible issues with such research strategy and discuss how you could improve it.

Answer 1

The attraction of democracy has indeed increased in past many years as they are slightly tilted to the capitalism. specially the US the world most powerful country had the high rate of immigrants attraction form the neighbouring countries.

The marielitos surely had negative impact on the miami miami force. Castro permitted and the people of cuba accepted the offer and thousands of people migrated. The Marielitos were disproportionately low-skill workers .. At
the time, about a quarter of Miami’s existing workers lacked a high school diploma. As a result, even though the Mariel supply shock increased the number of workers in Miami by 8%, it increased the number of high school dropouts by almost 20%.Miami’s pre-Mariel employment conditions were quite robust, ranking 6th in the rate of employment growth. Note that all the cities that made up the Card placebo had lower growth rates than Miami had between 1977 and 1980.There has been little research on the dynamics of immigration-induced supply shocks. But there has been much work on the dynamics of demand shocks.The evidence also has implications for estimates of the economic benefits
from immigration. The benefit that accrues to the native population, or the immigration surplus, is the flip side of the wage impact of immigration.

Still there are questions which are unanswered. The data we have is so contradictory to the average wage rates. But some old data with some new ideas can
reveal trends that radically change what we think we know.