Life Out of the Shadows: Impacts of Amnesties in the Lives of Migrants

Ana Ibáñez, Andres Moya, María Adelaida Ortega (), Sandra Rozo and Maria José Urbina ()
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María Adelaida Ortega: University of California, Davis
Maria José Urbina: World Bank

No 15049, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

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.

Keywords: migration; refugees; amnesties; Latin America (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F22 O15 R23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 71 pages
Date: 2022-01
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-lam, nep-mig and nep-ure
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