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dc.date.accessioned 2021-11-18T14:36:35Z
dc.date.available 2021-11-18T14:36:35Z
dc.date.issued 2021-11
dc.identifier.uri http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/128343
dc.description.abstract The massive displacement of Venezuelan citizens to Colombia is the second most important episode of forced migration in the world. We study the impact of this demographic shock on the Colombian income distribution exploiting the geographical heterogeneity in the intensity of migration. We use RIF regressions in an instrumental variables approach to account for the non-random pattern of location of immigrants. We find that despite the fact that Venezuelan immigrants are relatively skilled compared to native Colombian workers, the exodus had a larger negative effect on the lower tail of the wage distribution, implying increases in income inequality and poverty. We link this result to a sizeable downgrading of (mostly unregistered) Venezuelan recent migrants who work in more routine tasks and earn lower wages than natives with similar characteristics. We also explore a large regularization program for immigrants and find that it was associated to a reduction in the extent of downgrading, and hence, to a mitigation of the unequalizing impact of the exodus. en
dc.language en es
dc.subject Migration es
dc.subject Income es
dc.subject Inequality es
dc.subject Labor Markets es
dc.subject Downgrading es
dc.subject Colombia es
dc.subject Venezuela es
dc.title The distributional effect of a massive exodus in Latin America and the role of downgrading and regularization en
dc.type Articulo es
sedici.identifier.uri https://www.cedlas.econo.unlp.edu.ar/wp/no-290/ es
sedici.identifier.issn 1853-0168 es
sedici.creator.person Lombardo, Carlo es
sedici.creator.person Martínez Correa, Julián es
sedici.creator.person Peñaloza Pacheco, Leonardo José es
sedici.creator.person Gasparini, Leonardo Carlos es
sedici.subject.materias Ciencias Económicas es
sedici.description.fulltext true es
mods.originInfo.place Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales es
sedici.subtype Documento de trabajo es
sedici.rights.license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
sedici.rights.uri http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
sedici.description.peerReview peer-review es
sedici.relation.journalTitle Documentos de Trabajo del CEDLAS es
sedici.relation.journalVolumeAndIssue no. 290 es


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