Jason Richwine wrote in this space about a then-new study by Harvard’s George Borjas casting doubt on the common wisdom about the “Mariel boatlift.” In 1980, a lot of low-skilled immigrants ...
The boatlift has a special place in the minds of labor economists. After Fidel Castro announced in 1980 that Cubans were free to leave via the port of Mariel, some 125,000 came to Miami in a ...
Between April and October of 1980, over 125,000 Cubans entered the ... disputed study by economist George Borjas claiming the Mariel boatlift had depressed wages for less educated workers in ...
Between April and September 1980, 125,000 Cubans arrived in Florida from the port of El Mariel, in a dramatic boatlift that had longstanding repercussions for the United States and for Castro's image.
Why do Cuban Americans who vote for Trump gather at Versailles in Little Havana on Election Day every four years? They must.
Borjas — who was among the more than three dozen economists who authored the National Academies consensus paper — studied the Mariel boatlift ... April to October 1980. At least 60% of ...
Giovanni Peri, a labor economist at the University of California, Davis, conducted research that explores the impact of the 1980 influx of Cuban immigrants in Miami (the so-called Mariel Boatlift) ...
The area was rife with poverty and drug-related crime. Recent Cuban refugees, many of whom arrived during the Mariel boatlift of 1980, were, in part, blamed for the unsavory conditions.
Princeton University will present its top awards for alumni to Elena Kagan ’81, associate justice of the Supreme Court of the ...
Giovanni Peri, a labor economist at UC Davis, conducted research that explores the impact of the 1980 influx of Cuban immigrants in Miami (the so-called Mariel Boatlift) on Black workers ...
Her current book manuscript examines how gender influenced the reception and resettlement of Cubans who arrived in the United States in what came to be known as the "Mariel Boatlift ... Gendered ...
In 1980, Fort McCoy was selected as one of four ... Fort McCoy processed and housed over 14,000 migrants during this crisis, known as the Mariel exodus and sometimes referred to as “Freedom ...