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Room in the Kitchen for the Melting Pot: Immigration and Rental Prices

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Albert Saiz (Department of Economics, Harvard University; Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia)

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This paper studies the response of housing markets to immigration shocks. Following Card (1990), I examine the changes in rental prices in Miami and three comparison groups after the Mariel boatlift. This exogenous immigration shock added an extra 9% to Miami's renter population in 1980. I find that rents increased from 8% to 11% more in Miami than in the comparison groups between 1979 and 1981. By 1983 the rent differential was still 7%. Rental units of higher quality were not affected by the immigration shock. Units occupied by low-income Hispanic residents in 1979 experienced an extra 8% differential hike with respect to other low-income units. Relative housing prices moved in the opposite direction from rents in the short run. Copyright (c) 2003 President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Volume (Year): 85 (2003)
Issue (Month): 3 (05)
Pages: 502-521
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  7. Ethan Lewis, 2004. "How did the Miami labor market absorb the Mariel immigrants?," Working Papers 04-3, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. [Downloadable!]
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  9. Libertad González Luna & Francesc Ortega, 2007. "How do Very Open Economies Adjust to Large Immigration Flows? Recent Evidence from Spanish Regions," Economics Working Papers 1059, Department of Economics and Business, Universitat Pompeu Fabra. [Downloadable!]
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  12. Hendrik P. van Dalen & Kène Henkens, 2004. "The Rationality behind Immigration Preferences," Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers 04-002/1, Tinbergen Institute. [Downloadable!]
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  15. Erica Greulich & John Quigley & Steven Raphael, 2006. "The Anatomy of Rent Burdens: Immigration, Growth and Rental Housing," Berkeley Program on Housing and Urban Policy, Working Paper Series 1049, Berkeley Program on Housing and Urban Policy. [Downloadable!]
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