Title: Labor outflows and labor inflows in Puerto Rico
First published: 2007
Description: "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"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
LC classification: HB1