Blessing or burden? Impacts of refugees on businesses and the informal economy

Altındağ, Onur; Bakış, Ozan; Rozo, Sandra V.

doi:10.1016/j.jdeveco.2020.102490

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“…Similar results are presented by Bratsberg et al (2002) when analyzing the impacts of migrant's naturalization and Kaushal (2006), who examine the impacts of the 1997 Nicaraguan Adjustment and Central American Relief Act. Yet, many other studies examine the impacts of inflows of forced migrants in the native's labor outcomes (see Maystadt and Verwimp, 2014;Tumen, 2016;Ruiz and Vargas-Silva, 2016;Alix-Garcia et al, 2018;Fallah et al, 2019;Altındag et al, 2020). Our study falls in between these two groups by focusing on the impacts of a large amnesty on natives workers, while focusing on a developing country with a large informal labor market.…”

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Give me your tired and your poor: Impact of a large-scale amnesty program for undocumented refugees

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Ibáñez

Rozo

2021

Journal of Development Economics

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Between 2014 and 2020 over 1.8 million refugees fled from Venezuela to Colombia as a result of a humanitarian crisis, many of them without a regular migratory status. We study the short-to medium-term labor market impacts in Colombia of the Permiso Temporal de Permanencia program, the largest migratory amnesty program offered to undocumented migrants in a developing country in modern history. The program granted regular migratory status and work permits to nearly half a million undocumented Venezuelan migrants in Colombia in August 2018. To identify the effects of the program, we match confidential administrative data on the location of undocumented migrants with department-monthly data from household surveys and compare labor outcomes in departments that were granted different average time windows to register for the amnesty online, before and after the program roll-out. We are only able to distinguish negative albeit negligible effects of the program on the formal employment of Colombian workers. These effects are predominantly concentrated in highly educated and in female workers.

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Give me your tired and your poor: Impact of a large-scale amnesty program for undocumented refugees

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2021

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“…Agriculture provides opportunities for the unskilled labor force which is more inclined towards informal work compared to their highly skilled counterparts to acquire sources of financial income (Saracoglu, 2020) as in industrialized world there are less positions available for unskilled labor (Fracasso, Marzetti & Coletto, 2018). For the same reasons informal employment in agriculture is one of the sources of living for refugees and illegal migrants (Altındağ, Bakış & Rozo, 2020). Some of the informal labor in agriculture is forced into this position by the given institutional framework conditions (Mukhamedova & Wegerich, 2018).…”

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Measuring the Immeasurable: The Evolution of the Size of Informal Economy in the Agricultural Sector in the EU-15 Up to 2019

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“…More recently, researchers have shifted the focus to other dimensions of the effects of Syrian refugee inflows into Turkey. Altindag et al (2020) argue that refugee inflows had a positive impact on firm production, both in terms of the volume of production and the introduction of new product varieties. Akgunduz and Torun (2020) examine other channels by which Turkish workers and firms accommodated the inflows of Syrian refugees.…”

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Shoring up economic refugees: Venezuelan migrants in the Ecuadoran labor market

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Ecuador became the third largest receiver of the 4.3 million Venezuelans who left their country in the last five years, hosting around 10 per cent of them. Little is known about the characteristics of these migrants and their labor market outcomes. This article fills this gap by analyzing a new large survey (EPEC). On average, Venezuelan workers are highly skilled and have high rates of employment, compared with Ecuadorans. However, their employment is of much lower quality, characterized by low wages, and high rates of informality and temporality. Venezuelans have experienced significant occupational downgrading, relative to their employment prior to emigration. As a result, despite their high educational attainment, Venezuelans primarily compete for jobs with the least skilled and more economically vulnerable Ecuadoran workers. Our simulations suggest that measures that allow Venezuelans to obtain employment that matches their skills, such as facilitating the conversion of education credentials, would increase Ecuador’s GDP between 1.6 and 1.9 per cent and alleviate the pressure on disadvantaged native workers. We also show that providing work permits to Venezuelan workers would substantially reduce their rates of informality and increase their average earnings.

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Blessing or burden? Impacts of refugees on businesses and the informal economy

Cited by 74 publications

References 25 publications

Give me your tired and your poor: Impact of a large-scale amnesty program for undocumented refugees

Give me your tired and your poor: Impact of a large-scale amnesty program for undocumented refugees

Measuring the Immeasurable: The Evolution of the Size of Informal Economy in the Agricultural Sector in the EU-15 Up to 2019

Shoring up economic refugees: Venezuelan migrants in the Ecuadoran labor market

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