Life Out of the Shadows : Impacts of Amnesties in the Lives of Refugees
This paper examines the effects of a government regularization program offered to half a million Venezuelan refugees in Colombia. For this purpose, 2,232 surveys of refugee families were collected and used to compare refugees who arrived in Colombi...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2022
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/972051644257549046/Life-out-of-the-Shadows-Impacts-of-Amnesties-in-the-Lives-of-Refugees http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36967 |
| Summary: | This paper examines the effects of a
government regularization program offered to half a million
Venezuelan refugees in Colombia. For this purpose, 2,232
surveys of refugee families were collected and used to
compare refugees who arrived in Colombia around a specified
eligibility date in 2018. The analysis finds that program
beneficiaries experienced improvements in consumption (60
percent), income (31 percent), physical and mental health
(1.8 sd), registration rates in the system that assesses
vulnerability and awards public transfers (40 pp), and
financial services (64.3 pp), relative to other refugees.
The program also induced a change in labor formalization of
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