Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/226303 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 8601
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
Between 2014 and 2020 over 1.8 million refugees fled from Venezuela to Colombia as a result of a humanitarian crisis, many of them without a regular migratory status. We study the short- to medium-term labor market impacts in Colombia of the Permiso Temporal de Permanencia program, the largest migratory amnesty program offered to undocumented migrants in a developing country in modern history. The program granted regular migratory status and work permits to nearly half a million undocumented Venezuelan migrants in Colombia in August 2018. To identify the effects of the program, we match confidential administrative data on the location of undocumented migrants with department-monthly data from household surveys and compare labor outcomes in departments that were granted different average time windows to register for the amnesty online, before and after the program roll-out. We are only able to distinguish negative albeit negligible effects of the program on the formal employment of Colombian workers. These effects are predominantly concentrated in highly educated and in female workers.
Subjects: 
migration
work permit
labor markets
amnesties
JEL: 
F22
O15
R23
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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