TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Clemens, Michael A.
AU  - Hunt, Jennifer
        TI  - The Labor Market Effects of Refugee Waves: Reconciling Conflicting Results
        PY  - 2017/May/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 10806
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp10806
        AB  - An influential strand of research has tested for the effects of immigration on natives' wages and employment using exogenous refugee supply shocks as natural experiments. Several studies have reached conflicting conclusions about the effects of noted refugee waves such as the Mariel Boatlift in Miami and post-Soviet refugees to Israel. We show that conflicting findings on the effects of the Mariel Boatlift can be explained by a sudden change in the race composition of the Current Population Survey extracts in 1980, specific to Miami but unrelated to the Boatlift. 
We also show that conflicting findings on the labor-market effects of other important refugee waves can be produced by spurious correlation between the instrument and the endogenous variable introduced by applying a common divisor to both. As a whole, the evidence from refugee waves reinforces the existing consensus that the impact of immigration on average native-born workers is small, and fails to substantiate claims of large detrimental impacts on workers with less than high school.
        KW  - immigration
KW  - wages
KW  - unemployment
KW  - refugee
KW  - asylum
KW  - crisis
KW  - violence
KW  - conflict
KW  - labor
KW  - integration
KW  - mariel boatlift
KW  - Miami
KW  - Israel
KW  - France
KW  - Algeria
        ER  -