Measuring Immigration's Effects on Labor Demand: A Reexamination of the Mariel Boatlift

Why do immigration shocks tend to have benign effects on native wages? One reason is that immigrants as consumers contribute to the demand for their services. We model an economy where workers spend their wages on a locally produced good, then test it via a reexamination of the 1980

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	van den Berg, Hendrik Professor of Economics Expertise: International - South and Central America International Trade & Finance NAFTA Economics CBA 350 P.O. Box 880489 University of Nebraska-Lincoln Lincoln, NE 68588-0489, USA Phone: (402) 202-6997 Fax: (402) 472-9700 hvan-den-berg1@unl.edu	van den Berg, Hendrik	Economics