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ImpactofCross-Border

MigrationontheGender

GapinLaborForce

ParticipationinLatin

Americaandinthe

CaribbeanCountries

CassieChenXiangandManukGhazanchyan

WP/25/167

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2025

AUG

©2025InternationalMonetaryFundWP/25/167

IMFWorkingPaper

WesternHemisphereDepartment

ImpactofCross-BorderMigrationontheGenderGapinLaborForceParticipationinLatinAmericaand

intheCaribbeanCountries

PreparedbyCassieChenXiangandManukGhazanchyan*

AuthorizedfordistributionbyPatriziaTumbarello

August2025

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ABSTRACT:Migrationhasbeentypicallyaccompaniedbypersistentlylargegendergapsinlaborforceparticipation

(LFP)rateswithintheLatinAmericanandtheCaribbean(LAC)countriesfrom1990to2020.However,theimpactof

bothemigration(movingabroad)andimmigration(comingintothehostcountry),andtheirjointeffectongendergap

inlaborforceparticipationinLACremainstobeexplored.Thispaperfillsthisgapbyusingbothcountry-leveldata

acrossLACcountriesandindividual-