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| dc.title | Heterogeneous Labor Impacts of Migration Across Skill Groups: The Case of Costa Rica |
| dc.contributor.author | Blyde, Juan S. |
| dc.contributor.orgunit | Migration Unit |
| dc.coverage | Nicaragua |
| dc.coverage | Costa Rica |
| dc.coverage | Central America |
| dc.date.available | 2020-08-20T16:00:00 |
| dc.date.issue | 2020-08-20T16:00:00 |
| dc.description.abstract | Popular empirical strategies that examine the labor impacts of migrants, like the skill-cell approach, are frequently used to measure the effects of immigrants from a particular skill group on native-born workers with similar skills. I use an augmented version of the skill-cell approach to examine the impacts of immigrants on native workers with similar skills but also across skill groups. I apply this approach to the case of Nicaraguan immigrants in Costa Rica. I find large positive employment and wage effects on high-skilled women arising from low-skilled migrants. These positive effects are derived from both the household channel and the complementary-skills channel. I also find negative but small effects on low-skilled native workers. The results show that immigrants can have complex labor market effects on native workers with own and cross elasticities that can be quite different. |
| dc.format.extent | 26 |
| dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0002595 |
| dc.identifier.url | https://publications.iadb.org/publications/english/document/Heterogeneous-Labor-Impacts-of-Migration-Across-Skill-Groups-The-Case-of-Costa-Rica.pdf |
| dc.language.iso | en |
| dc.medium | Adobe PDF |
| dc.publisher | Inter-American Development Bank |
| dc.subject | Employment Rate |
| dc.subject | Skilled Labor |
| dc.subject | Labor Market |
| dc.subject | Wage |
| dc.subject | Household Survey |
| dc.subject | Migration and Migrant |
| dc.subject.jelcode | J61 - Geographic Labor Mobility • Immigrant Workers |
| dc.subject.jelcode | F22 - International Migration |
| dc.subject.jelcode | J60 - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers: General |
| dc.subject.keywords | Employment;International migration;skill-cell |
| dc.type | Working Papers |
| idb.identifier.pubnumber | IDB-WP-01145 |
| idb.operation | RG-E1633 |