After Hurricane Maria, many Puerto Ricans moved to Florida. Did they take jobs from natives? In this updated CGO paper, contributing Scholars Giovanni Peri, @DerekRury and @JCWetCoast show this migration had a positive impact on employment for natives. https://www.thecgo.org/research/the-economic-impact-of-migrants-from-hurricane-maria/
The Economic Impact of Migrants from Hurricane Maria - The CGO

In this paper, the authors explore Hurricane Maria’s economic effects on native earnings within the Orlando area.

https://www.thecgo.org/research/the-economic-impact-of-migrants-from-hurricane-maria/
The data show that employment grew the most in construction, but overall employment grew as well:
For wages, overall effects are positive, but construction wages fell by almost 2.5%:
Why did construction wages fall? Because the employment growth was the largest within that sector. A lot more people were working in construction.
Construction work saw a large increase in workers
Overall, this suggests that focusing on immigration’s wage effects is best done by thinking carefully about sector-by-sector effects. In two of the three sectors, immigration was good for everyone!
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