Abstract
I study the effects of mass migration from Venezuela to Colombia on native labor market outcomes, occupational skill level and internal migration. Using an instrumental variable strategy and variation across 79 metropolitan areas, I find that the migration led to minimal changes in native employment and a 1.05% decline in hourly wages from a 1 percentage point increase in the migrant share. This magnitude is substantially larger for less educated workers in the informal sector. I also find that Venezuelan migration caused small increases in native out-migration alongside minor occupational upgrading by some demographic groups and downgrading by others. Existing papers studying the same migration wave have found different magnitudes of the wage effect, and I demonstrate the differences in specification that drive this variation. In particular, the magnitude of the wage effect is sensitive to implicit assumptions made while constructing the migration measure.
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