Shoring up economic refugees : Venezuelan migrants in the Ecuadoran labor market / Sergio Olivieri, Francesc Ortega, Ana Rivadeneira, Eliana Carranza
Contributor(s): Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Series: World Bank E-Library Archive | Policy research working paper ; 9332Publisher: [Washington, DC, USA] : World Bank Group, Poverty and Equity Global Practice, July 2020Description: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 39 Seiten) : IllustrationenSubject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Erscheint auch als: Shoring up Economic Refugees: Venezuelan Migrants in the Ecuadoran Labor Market. Druck-Ausgabe Washington, D.C : The World Bank, 2020DOI: DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-9332Online resources: Summary: Ecuador became the third largest receiver of the 4.3 million Venezuelans who left their country in the last five years, hosting around 10 percent of them. Little is known about the characteristics of these migrants and their labor market outcomes. This paper fills this gap by analyzing a new large survey (EPEC). On average, Venezuelan workers are highly skilled and have high rates of employment, compared with Ecuadorans. However, their employment is of much lower quality, characterized by low wages and high rates of informality and temporality. Venezuelans have experienced significant occupational downgrading, relative to their employment prior to emigration. As a result, despite their high educational attainment, Venezuelans primarily compete for jobs with the least skilled and more economically vulnerable Ecuadoran workers. Our simulations suggest that measures that allow Venezuelans to obtain employment that matches their skills, such as facilitating the conversion of education credentials, would increase Ecuador's GDP between 1.6 and 1.9 percent and alleviate the pressure on disadvantaged native workers. We also show that providing work permits to Venezuelan workers would substantially reduce their rates of informality and increase their average earningsPPN: PPN: 173595912XPackage identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-110-WBL | ZDB-1-WBANo physical items for this record