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Title: Labor Outflows and Labor Inflows in Puerto Rico

Citation Type: Working Paper

Publication Year: 2007

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DOI: 10.3386/w13669

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Abstract: Although a sizable fraction of the Puerto Rican-born population moved to the United States, the island also received large inflows of persons born outside Puerto Rico. Hence Puerto Rico provides a unique setting for examining how labor inflows and outflows coexist, and measuring the mirror-image wage impact of these flows. The study yields two findings. First, the skills of the out-migrants differ from those of the in-migrants. Puerto Rico attracts high-skill in-migrants and exports low-skill workers. Second, the two flows have opposing effects on wages: in-migrants lower the wage of competing workers and out-migrants increase the wage.

Url: http://www.nber.org/papers/w13669.pdf

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Authors: Borjas, George

Series Title: NBER Working Paper Series

Publication Number: 13669

Institution: National Bureau of Economic Research

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Publisher Location: Cambridge, MA

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Migration and Immigration

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