Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/250710 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 15049
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper examines the effects of a government regularization program offered to half a million Venezuelan refugees in Colombia. For this purpose, 2,232 surveys of refugee families were collected and used to compare refugees who arrived in Colombia around a specified eligibility date in 2018. We find that program beneficiaries experienced improvements in consumption (60 percent), income (31 percent), physical and mental health (1.8 sd), registration rates in the system that assesses vulnerability and awards public transfers (40 pp), and financial services (64.3 pp), relative to other refugees. The program also induced a change in labor formalization of 10 pp.
Subjects: 
migration
refugees
amnesties
Latin America
JEL: 
F22
O15
R23
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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