Exports “brother-boost”: the trade-creation and skill-upgrading effect of Venezuelan forced migration on Colombian manufacturing firms

This paper studies the impact of a massive skilled labor supply shock on Colombian manufacturing firms’ exports, the Venezuelan exodus. We exploit crosssectional and time variability of Venezuelan forced migrants’ settlements in Colombian sub-national areas through an enclave instrumental variables...

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Autores principales: Lombardo, Carlo, Peñaloza Pacheco, Leonardo José
Formato: Articulo Documento de trabajo
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2021
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Ciencias Económicas
Forced migration
Trade
Skill-upgrading
Colombia
Venezuela
Acceso en línea:http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/121902
https://www.cedlas.econo.unlp.edu.ar/wp/no-283/
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SEDICI (UNLP) de Universidad Nacional de La Plata
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topic Ciencias Económicas
Forced migration
Trade
Skill-upgrading
Colombia
Venezuela
spellingShingle Ciencias Económicas
Forced migration
Trade
Skill-upgrading
Colombia
Venezuela
Lombardo, Carlo
Peñaloza Pacheco, Leonardo José
Exports “brother-boost”: the trade-creation and skill-upgrading effect of Venezuelan forced migration on Colombian manufacturing firms
topic_facet Ciencias Económicas
Forced migration
Trade
Skill-upgrading
Colombia
Venezuela
description This paper studies the impact of a massive skilled labor supply shock on Colombian manufacturing firms’ exports, the Venezuelan exodus. We exploit crosssectional and time variability of Venezuelan forced migrants’ settlements in Colombian sub-national areas through an enclave instrumental variables approach to account for the selection of immigrants’ location. Using yearly customs data from 2013 to 2019, we find that the Venezuelan migration improved Colombian manufacturing firms’ export performance, particularly to high-income countries of the OECD located in North America and low-income countries. This effect was stronger for firms that exported less prior to the exodus (2012). Furthermore, using a detailed yearly panel of manufacturing firms from 2013 to 2019 we identify the potential labor market driving mechanism of the trade-creation effect: immigrants lowered exporting firms’ blue-collar wages, and allowed them to upgrade their labor force skill composition, namely firms were able to hire workers more compatible with exports to developed destinations.
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Peñaloza Pacheco, Leonardo José
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Peñaloza Pacheco, Leonardo José
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title Exports “brother-boost”: the trade-creation and skill-upgrading effect of Venezuelan forced migration on Colombian manufacturing firms
title_short Exports “brother-boost”: the trade-creation and skill-upgrading effect of Venezuelan forced migration on Colombian manufacturing firms
title_full Exports “brother-boost”: the trade-creation and skill-upgrading effect of Venezuelan forced migration on Colombian manufacturing firms
title_fullStr Exports “brother-boost”: the trade-creation and skill-upgrading effect of Venezuelan forced migration on Colombian manufacturing firms
title_full_unstemmed Exports “brother-boost”: the trade-creation and skill-upgrading effect of Venezuelan forced migration on Colombian manufacturing firms
title_sort exports “brother-boost”: the trade-creation and skill-upgrading effect of venezuelan forced migration on colombian manufacturing firms
publishDate 2021
url http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/121902
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