Shoring Up Economic Refugees : Venezuelan Migrants in the Ecuadoran Labor Market

Ecuador became the third largest receiver of the 4.3 million Venezuelans who left their country in the last five years, hosting around 10 percent of them. Little is known about the characteristics of these migrants and their labor market outcomes....

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Main Authors:	Olivieri, Sergio, Ortega, Francesc, Rivadeneira, Ana, Carranza, Eliana
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2020
Subjects:	MIGRANTS INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION LABOR MARKET REFUGEES LABOR SKILLS EXODUS DISPLACED PERSONS
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/354821595510754331/Shoring-Up-Economic-Refugees-Venezuelan-Migrants-in-the-Ecuadoran-Labor-Market http://hdl.handle.net/10986/34250

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spelling	okr-10986-342502022-09-20T00:12:14Z Shoring Up Economic Refugees : Venezuelan Migrants in the Ecuadoran Labor Market Olivieri, Sergio Ortega, Francesc Rivadeneira, Ana Carranza, Eliana MIGRANTS INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION LABOR MARKET REFUGEES LABOR SKILLS EXODUS DISPLACED PERSONS Ecuador became the third largest receiver of the 4.3 million Venezuelans who left their country in the last five years, hosting around 10 percent of them. Little is known about the characteristics of these migrants and their labor market outcomes. This paper 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 percent 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. 2020-07-30T14:33:58Z 2020-07-30T14:33:58Z 2020-07 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/354821595510754331/Shoring-Up-Economic-Refugees-Venezuelan-Migrants-in-the-Ecuadoran-Labor-Market http://hdl.handle.net/10986/34250 English Policy Research Working Paper, No. 9332 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Latin America & Caribbean Ecuador Venezuela, Republica Bolivariana de
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spellingShingle	MIGRANTS INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION LABOR MARKET REFUGEES LABOR SKILLS EXODUS DISPLACED PERSONS Olivieri, Sergio Ortega, Francesc Rivadeneira, Ana Carranza, Eliana Shoring Up Economic Refugees : Venezuelan Migrants in the Ecuadoran Labor Market
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description	Ecuador became the third largest receiver of the 4.3 million Venezuelans who left their country in the last five years, hosting around 10 percent of them. Little is known about the characteristics of these migrants and their labor market outcomes. This paper 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 percent 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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author	Olivieri, Sergio Ortega, Francesc Rivadeneira, Ana Carranza, Eliana
author_facet	Olivieri, Sergio Ortega, Francesc Rivadeneira, Ana Carranza, Eliana
author_sort	Olivieri, Sergio
title	Shoring Up Economic Refugees : Venezuelan Migrants in the Ecuadoran Labor Market
title_short	Shoring Up Economic Refugees : Venezuelan Migrants in the Ecuadoran Labor Market
title_full	Shoring Up Economic Refugees : Venezuelan Migrants in the Ecuadoran Labor Market
title_fullStr	Shoring Up Economic Refugees : Venezuelan Migrants in the Ecuadoran Labor Market
title_full_unstemmed	Shoring Up Economic Refugees : Venezuelan Migrants in the Ecuadoran Labor Market
title_sort	shoring up economic refugees : venezuelan migrants in the ecuadoran labor market
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2020
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/354821595510754331/Shoring-Up-Economic-Refugees-Venezuelan-Migrants-in-the-Ecuadoran-Labor-Market http://hdl.handle.net/10986/34250
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Shoring Up Economic Refugees : Venezuelan Migrants in the Ecuadoran Labor Market

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