The Labor Market Effects of Venezuelan Migration in Ecuador

As of 2019, more than 1.2 million Venezuelans passed through Ecuador and more than 400,000 settled (almost 3 percent of Ecuador's population). This paper analyzes the location choices of Venezuelan migrants in Ecuador and the labor market cons...

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Main Authors:	Olivieri, Sergio, Ortega, Francesc, Carranza, Eliana, Rivadeneira, Ana
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2020
Subjects:	INTERNAL MIGRATION LABOR MARKET MIGRANT LABOR FOREIGN WORKERS EMPLOYMENT
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/149381595860801942/The-Labor-Market-Effects-of-Venezuelan-Migration-in-Ecuador http://hdl.handle.net/10986/34254

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spelling	okr-10986-342542022-09-20T00:11:03Z The Labor Market Effects of Venezuelan Migration in Ecuador Olivieri, Sergio Ortega, Francesc Carranza, Eliana Rivadeneira, Ana INTERNAL MIGRATION LABOR MARKET MIGRANT LABOR FOREIGN WORKERS EMPLOYMENT As of 2019, more than 1.2 million Venezuelans passed through Ecuador and more than 400,000 settled (almost 3 percent of Ecuador's population). This paper analyzes the location choices of Venezuelan migrants in Ecuador and the labor market consequences of these choices, using data from Ecuador's labor force survey and mobile phone records on the geographic distribution of Venezuelan migrants. Around half of the migrants live in four cantons (of 221). Their location is primarily driven by local economic conditions, rather than point of entry. Overall, the regions with the largest inflows of Venezuelans have not seen any effects on labor market participation or employment, compared with regions with fewer inflows. However, our difference-in-difference estimates clearly indicate that young, low-educated Ecuadoran workers in high-inflow regions have been adversely affected. Specifically, the estimates that these workers have experienced reductions in employment quality, a 5 percentage-point increase in the rate of informality, and a 13 percentage-point reduction in earnings, relative to workers with similar characteristics living in areas with very low or non-existent inflows of Venezuelans. 2020-07-30T15:16:30Z 2020-07-30T15:16:30Z 2020-07 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/149381595860801942/The-Labor-Market-Effects-of-Venezuelan-Migration-in-Ecuador http://hdl.handle.net/10986/34254 English Policy Research Working Paper;No. 9336 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	INTERNAL MIGRATION LABOR MARKET MIGRANT LABOR FOREIGN WORKERS EMPLOYMENT Olivieri, Sergio Ortega, Francesc Carranza, Eliana Rivadeneira, Ana The Labor Market Effects of Venezuelan Migration in Ecuador
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description	As of 2019, more than 1.2 million Venezuelans passed through Ecuador and more than 400,000 settled (almost 3 percent of Ecuador's population). This paper analyzes the location choices of Venezuelan migrants in Ecuador and the labor market consequences of these choices, using data from Ecuador's labor force survey and mobile phone records on the geographic distribution of Venezuelan migrants. Around half of the migrants live in four cantons (of 221). Their location is primarily driven by local economic conditions, rather than point of entry. Overall, the regions with the largest inflows of Venezuelans have not seen any effects on labor market participation or employment, compared with regions with fewer inflows. However, our difference-in-difference estimates clearly indicate that young, low-educated Ecuadoran workers in high-inflow regions have been adversely affected. Specifically, the estimates that these workers have experienced reductions in employment quality, a 5 percentage-point increase in the rate of informality, and a 13 percentage-point reduction in earnings, relative to workers with similar characteristics living in areas with very low or non-existent inflows of Venezuelans.
format	Working Paper
author	Olivieri, Sergio Ortega, Francesc Carranza, Eliana Rivadeneira, Ana
author_facet	Olivieri, Sergio Ortega, Francesc Carranza, Eliana Rivadeneira, Ana
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title	The Labor Market Effects of Venezuelan Migration in Ecuador
title_short	The Labor Market Effects of Venezuelan Migration in Ecuador
title_full	The Labor Market Effects of Venezuelan Migration in Ecuador
title_fullStr	The Labor Market Effects of Venezuelan Migration in Ecuador
title_full_unstemmed	The Labor Market Effects of Venezuelan Migration in Ecuador
title_sort	labor market effects of venezuelan migration in ecuador
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2020
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/149381595860801942/The-Labor-Market-Effects-of-Venezuelan-Migration-in-Ecuador http://hdl.handle.net/10986/34254
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