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Do immigrants really take jobs and lower wages?
Planet Money
Borjas Challenges Card's Mariel Boatlift Study
- George Borjas, a Harvard professor, decided to revisit David Card's Mariel boatlift study in 2015.
- Borjas focused specifically on high school dropouts, a group Card had not isolated in his analysis.
- His findings contradicted Card's, showing a significant 10-30% wage drop for high school dropouts in Miami.
- Borjas's study suggested that the influx of immigrants did negatively impact the wages of the lowest-skilled workers.
- This research overturned Card's pro-immigration findings and sparked controversy both within and outside the field of economics.
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