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

Autores
Vera, Celia P.; Jiménez Silva, Bruno Tibaldo
Año de publicación
2022
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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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Ciencias Económicas
Immigration
Education-experience cells
Occupation cells
Informality
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv The short-term labor market impact of Venezuelan Immigration in Peru
title The short-term labor market impact of Venezuelan Immigration in Peru
spellingShingle The short-term labor market impact of Venezuelan Immigration in Peru
Vera, Celia P.
Ciencias Económicas
Immigration
Education-experience cells
Occupation cells
Informality
title_short The short-term labor market impact of Venezuelan Immigration in Peru
title_full The short-term labor market impact of Venezuelan Immigration in Peru
title_fullStr The short-term labor market impact of Venezuelan Immigration in Peru
title_full_unstemmed The short-term labor market impact of Venezuelan Immigration in Peru
title_sort The short-term labor market impact of Venezuelan Immigration in Peru
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Vera, Celia P.
Jiménez Silva, Bruno Tibaldo
author Vera, Celia P.
author_facet Vera, Celia P.
Jiménez Silva, Bruno Tibaldo
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author2 Jiménez Silva, Bruno Tibaldo
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Ciencias Económicas
Immigration
Education-experience cells
Occupation cells
Informality
topic Ciencias Económicas
Immigration
Education-experience cells
Occupation cells
Informality
dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv 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
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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