Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/234714 
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Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
IDB Working Paper Series No. IDB-WP-1145
Publisher: 
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Washington, DC
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.
Subjects: 
International migration
skill-cell
employment
JEL: 
J60
J61
F22
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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