TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Ibanez, Ana Maria
AU  - Moya, Andres
AU  - Ortega, María Adelaida
AU  - Rozo, Sandra V.
AU  - Urbina, Maria José
        TI  - Life Out of the Shadows: Impacts of Amnesties in the Lives of Migrants
        PY  - 2022/Jan/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 15049
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp15049
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - migration
KW  - refugees
KW  - amnesties
KW  - Latin America
        ER  -