Maids and School Teachers: Low Skill Migration and High Skill Labor Supply
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This paper analyzes how low skill rural-urban migration in Brazil from 1986 to 2000 led to an increase in the labor supply of high skill women living in urban areas. Using weather shocks in rural areas and the distance between rural and urban municipalities as intruments, we are able to build an exogenous migration shock by skill and gender to cities. We show that cities that received proportionaly more women than men show a decrease in the wages of domestic services, with no effect on high skill workers wages.
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