This article examines the characteristics, location choice and labour market impacts of the recent inflow of Venezuelan refugees in the United States. A few interesting findings emerge from analysing the data. Unlike previous US immigration experience in the 1980s, the flow of recent Venezuelan refugees into the United States is characterized by an inflow of highly educated individuals with a college education. The finding of the analysis also suggests that the location choice of these refugees within the United States is not mainly driven by labour market conditions in the destination cities. Rather, distance to home country and climatic difference with Venezuela are the main factors in determining the flow of Venezuelan refugees into a particular US city. Consistent with this finding, most Venezuelan refugees choose to settle only in two cities in Florida: Miami and Orlando. Examining the labour market conditions in Miami and Orlando following the flow of Venezuelan refugees, the results of the analysis show a lack of evidence that the labour force participation, unemployment rate and weekly wages of US natives are adversely affected by the inflow.

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美国委内瑞拉难民危机对劳动力市场的影响*

本文考察了最近流入美国的委内瑞拉难民的特征、地点选择和劳动力市场影响。分析数据时出现了一些有趣的发现。与 1980 年代以前的美国移民经历不同，最近流入美国的委内瑞拉难民的特点是大量受过高等教育的受过大学教育的人流入。分析结果还表明，这些难民在美国境内的地点选择主要不是由目的地城市的劳动力市场条件驱动的。相反，与本国的距离和与委内瑞拉的气候差异是决定委内瑞拉难民流入特定美国城市的主要因素。与这一发现一致，大多数委内瑞拉难民只选择在佛罗里达州的两个城市定居：迈阿密和奥兰多。分析委内瑞拉难民流入后迈阿密和奥兰多的劳动力市场状况，分析结果表明，缺乏证据表明美国本地人的劳动力参与率、失业率和每周工资受到流入的不利影响。