¡Oye Loca!: From the Mariel Boatlift to Gay Cuban Miami, written by Susana Peña

The Wage Impact of the Marielitos: a Reappraisal

This article brings a new perspective to the analysis of the wage effects of the Mariel boatlift crisis, in which an estimated 125,000 Cuban refugees migrated to Florida between April and October, 1980. The author revisits the question of wage impacts from such a supply shock, drawing on the cumulative insights of research on the economic impact of immigration. That literature shows that the wa...

The Labor Market Effects of a Refugee Wave: Synthetic Control Method meets the Mariel Boatlift∗

We apply the synthetic control method to re-examine the wage and employment effect of the Mariel Boatlift, a large inflow of Cuban refugees to Miami in 1980. This method improves on previous studies by choosing a control group for Miami so as to best match its labor market features in the eight years before the Boatlift. Given the presence of significant measurement error for average city wages...

from linguistics to literature: a linguistic approach to the study of linguistic deviations in the turkish divan of shahriar

chapter i provides an overview of structural linguistics and touches upon the saussurean dichotomies with the final goal of exploring their relevance to the stylistic studies of literature. to provide evidence for the singificance of the study, chapter ii deals with the controversial issue of linguistics and literature, and presents opposing views which, at the same time, have been central to t...

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The multiple prosodic cues differentiating questions and statements in Miami Cuban Spanish

Previous work on the intonational phonology of Miami Cuban (MC) Spanish [1, 2, 3] has revealed that broad focus declaratives and absolute interrogatives have the same nuclear tones. In laboratory speech, [2] found that these two sentence types, when compared paradigmatically, show significant differences in peak scaling and pitch range [2]. The present study examined peak scaling with syntagmat...