TY  - JOUR
AU  - Borjas,George J.
TI  - Labor Outflows and Labor Inflows in Puerto Rico
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 13669
PY  - 2007
Y2  - November 2007
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w13669
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w13669.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
George J. Borjas
Harvard Kennedy School
79 JFK Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Tel: 617/495-1393
Fax: 617/495-9532
E-Mail: gborjas@harvard.edu
AB  - 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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