Immigration, Wages, and Employment under Informal Labor Markets

Serie

  • Documento de trabajo RIEC

Resumen

  • This paper studies the labor market impacts of Venezuelan immigrants in Colombia. Exploitingspatial variation in exposure, I nd a negative e ect on native wages driven by the informalsector (where immigrants are concentrated) and a reduction in native employment in the formalsector (where the minimum wage binds for many workers). To explain this asymmetry, I builda model in which rms substitute formal for informal labor in response to lower informal wages.Consistent with the model's predictions, I document that the increase in informality is drivenby small rms that use both labor types in production.

fecha de publicación

  • 2022

Líneas de investigación

  • Event study
  • Immigration
  • Informality
  • Labor market

Issue

  • 96