The short-term labor market impact of Venezuelan Immigration in Peru

Peru is the second-largest recipient of Venezuelans worldwide. We combine newly available data on Venezuelans living in Peru and the Peruvian Household Survey to assess the impact of Venezuelan migration on natives’ wages and employment. The initial regression analysis exploits the variation in supp...

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Autores principales: Vera, Celia P., Jiménez Silva, Bruno Tibaldo
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Publicado: 2022
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Ciencias Económicas
Immigration
Education-experience cells
Occupation cells
Informality
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spelling I19-R120-10915-1440802023-05-12T12:41:51Z http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/144080 issn:1853-0168 The short-term labor market impact of Venezuelan Immigration in Peru Vera, Celia P. Jiménez Silva, Bruno Tibaldo 2022-09-08 2022-10-19T14:10:17Z en Ciencias Económicas Immigration Education-experience cells Occupation cells Informality Peru is the second-largest recipient of Venezuelans worldwide. We combine newly available data on Venezuelans living in Peru and the Peruvian Household Survey to assess the impact of Venezuelan migration on natives’ wages and employment. The initial regression analysis exploits the variation in supply shifts across education-experience groups over time. It indicates that immigration in Peru had no adverse impact on native wages. However, the paper highlights that in Peru immigrants and natives with similar education and experience are likely to work in different occupations. The subsequent analysis based on occupational clustering confirms the null effect on wages and indicates that a 20% increase in immigrants decreases formal employment by 6%. We do not find evidence for changes in employment composition toward informality so that migration operates through the extensive margin of employment. We report evidence in favor of immigrants being a close substitute to the least productive natives, suggesting that firms substitute native formal labor for low-cost immigrant informal labor. Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales Articulo Documento de trabajo http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) application/pdf
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topic Ciencias Económicas
Immigration
Education-experience cells
Occupation cells
Informality
spellingShingle Ciencias Económicas
Immigration
Education-experience cells
Occupation cells
Informality
Vera, Celia P.
Jiménez Silva, Bruno Tibaldo
The short-term labor market impact of Venezuelan Immigration in Peru
topic_facet Ciencias Económicas
Immigration
Education-experience cells
Occupation cells
Informality
description Peru is the second-largest recipient of Venezuelans worldwide. We combine newly available data on Venezuelans living in Peru and the Peruvian Household Survey to assess the impact of Venezuelan migration on natives’ wages and employment. The initial regression analysis exploits the variation in supply shifts across education-experience groups over time. It indicates that immigration in Peru had no adverse impact on native wages. However, the paper highlights that in Peru immigrants and natives with similar education and experience are likely to work in different occupations. The subsequent analysis based on occupational clustering confirms the null effect on wages and indicates that a 20% increase in immigrants decreases formal employment by 6%. We do not find evidence for changes in employment composition toward informality so that migration operates through the extensive margin of employment. We report evidence in favor of immigrants being a close substitute to the least productive natives, suggesting that firms substitute native formal labor for low-cost immigrant informal labor.
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