Working Paper: NBER ID: w13669
Authors: George J. Borjas
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.
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JEL Codes: J60; J61
Edges that are evidenced by causal inference methods are in orange, and the rest are in light blue.
| Cause | Effect |
|---|---|
| inmigrants (F22) | wages of competing workers (J31) |
| outmigrants (J61) | wages of competing workers (J31) |
| inmigrants (F22) | wage structure (J31) |
| outmigrants (J61) | wage structure (J31) |