Living with the neighbors: the effect of Venezuelan forced migration on the labor market in Colombia

Peñaloza-Pacheco, Leonardo

doi:10.1186/s12651-022-00318-3

Journal for Labour Market Research

Table 3 Migratory Flow in Colombia as a share of the labor force

From: Living with the neighbors: the effect of Venezuelan forced migration on the labor market in Colombia

	2005					2015-2019
	Labor force (LF)	Venezuelans	Other immigrants	Venezuelans/LF	Non-Venezuelans/LF	Labor force 2015	Venezuelans 2019	Venezuelans/LF
Amazonas	10,047	2	935	0.000	0.093	12,596	722	0.057
Antioquia	2,563,318	2655	9140	0.001	0.004	3,287,528	115,453	0.035
Arauca	26,070	422	140	0.016	0.005	32,685	33,972	1.039
Atlántico	880,267	3984	3012	0.005	0.003	1,234,920	120,985	0.098
Bogotá DC	3,555,862	4578	25,817	0.001	0.007	4,601,922	257,377	0.056
Bolívar	741,311	3898	2312	0.005	0.003	969,306	61,704	0.064
Boyacá	579,314	304	494	0.001	0.001	646,601	12,367	0.019
Caldas	450,376	138	865	0.000	0.002	456,819	5384	0.012
Caquetá	172,875	17	95	0.000	0.001	197,355	512	0.003
Casanare	55,322	97	105	0.002	0.002	69,360	16,274	0.235
Cauca	646,298	167	852	0.000	0.001	655,057	6020	0.009
Cesar	343,161	957	329	0.003	0.001	439,399	41,983	0.096
Chocó	189,451	24	244	0.000	0.001	174,973	591	0.003
Córdoba	648,561	1219	417	0.002	0.001	822,044	10,447	0.013
Cundinamarca	1,064,388	556	2127	0.001	0.002	1,419,360	70,874	0.050
Guainía	3,989	8	113	0.002	0.028	5,001	4742	0.948
Guaviare	18,131	0	69	0.000	0.004	22,732	275	0.012
Huila	434,442	70	519	0.000	0.001	579,500	3647	0.006
La Guajira	254,610	1138	540	0.004	0.002	467,280	115,200	0.247
Magdalena	420,249	1369	632	0.003	0.002	538,445	66,960	0.124
Meta	366,250	197	524	0.001	0.001	478,891	5680	0.012
Nariño	726,674	80	3591	0.000	0.005	947,293	10,370	0.011
Norte de Santander	549,764	8303	694	0.015	0.001	630,383	148,484	0.236
Putumayo	13,198	4	1373	0.000	0.104	16,547	2576	0.156
Quindío	256,212	197	1115	0.001	0.004	290,187	6525	0.022
Risaralda	431,187	409	2231	0.001	0.005	486,798	15,278	0.031
San Andrés	23,928	25	673	0.001	0.028	30,000	270	0.009
Santander	1,018,210	2283	479	0.002	0.001	1,152,800	81,461	0.071
Sucre	289,358	1290	212	0.004	0.001	381,853	17,304	0.045
Tolima	646,367	191	751	0.000	0.001	765,391	7273	0.010
Valle del Cauca	2,122,481	2664	11,113	0.001	0.005	2,521,853	67,843	0.027
Vaupés	4,609	2	55	0.000	0.012	5778	56	0.010
Vichada	5,038	102	53	0.020	0.011	6316	2934	0.465
Total	19,511,316	37,350	72,621	0.002	0.004	24,346,973	1,311,537	0.054

The labor force of Cundinamarca for year 2015, corresponds to that of 2012. To include only Venezuelans who could potentially be part of the labor force by 2019, 75% of migrants in each department were considered, given that, at the national level, according to the UAEMC, 75% of all Venezuelan individuals in Colombia were between 15 and 59 years of age. Due to lack of data availability, the labor force in 2005 was estimated for the departments of Amazonas, Arauca, Casanare, Guainía, Guaviare, Putumayo, San Andrés, Vaupés and Vichada, assuming that the labor force growth rate between 2005-2015 for those departments was equal to the average growth rate for the rest of the departments with available data. Source: Own elaboration based on data from DANE and UAEMC

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