Interactions in a high immigration context

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Abstract

In recent decades, sudden massive migration influxes have become a new driving force of migration in-creases. These types of migration flows present potential challenges to social and economic integration. Inthis paper, we study the socioeconomic integration using controlled laboratory experiments in the contextof the massive inflow of Venezuelan migrants in Peru, where the share of Venezuelan immigrants increasedfrom almost zero in 2016 to 2.5 percent of the country’s population in 2019. Using adult (non-student)native-born Peruvians and Venezuelan immigrants as subjects, we conducted homogeneous (same nation-ality) and mixed (different nationality) experimental sessions in Lima, to examine interactions that requirecooperation, coordination, trust, and reciprocity to achieve a Pareto superior outcome. We find no evidenceof discrimination or difference in those measures of behavior between the in-group and the out-group (basedon nationality). Within this context, we further find no differentials in normative or empirical expectations inthe behavior of non-nationals relative to those of nationals, and only a small to moderate implicit bias. Thislack of differential treatment may be interpreted as a short-run economic integration between immigrantsand natives in a challenging context of massive influxes of migrants.
Original languageEnglish
Number of pages28
JournalLatin American Economic Review
Volume34
DOIs
StatePublished - 24 Dec 2024

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e-ISSN: 2196-436X‎

Keywords

  • Immigration
  • Cooperation
  • Coordination
  • Trust
  • Economic interactions
  • Lab experiments

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