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<p>MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -&nbsp;Migrants&nbsp;in&nbsp;Latin&nbsp;America are more likely to work in&nbsp;informal&nbsp;jobs&nbsp;despite having higher qualifications compared to native workers, hindering their&nbsp;integration, a joint&nbsp;report&nbsp;by three international organizations showed on Friday.</p>
<p>Over 50% of&nbsp;migrants&nbsp;in the region are likely to find&nbsp;informal&nbsp;work, the study by the Inter-American&nbsp;Development Bank (IDB), the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) showed.</p>
<p>That trend has been registered in at least half of the 12 countries analyzed.</p>
<p>Migrants&nbsp;tend to end up with more temporary contracts and longer shifts, working 50 hours or more per week, than native laborers, 45% are whom work&nbsp;informally on average, the&nbsp;report&nbsp;added.</p>
<p>The poor quality of&nbsp;jobs&nbsp;found by&nbsp;migrants&nbsp;reveal a failure to take advantage of the opportunities that migration can bring to these countries, the&nbsp;report&nbsp;said.</p>
<p>It noted that in the last 10 years, only Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and the Dominican Republic have implemented special permits and visas to regulate the situation of immigrants.</p>
<p>Migrant women tend to be more educated than migrant men, the&nbsp;report&nbsp;said, but added that "the proportion of working-age male&nbsp;migrants&nbsp;who are employed exceeds that of female&nbsp;migrants&nbsp;by more than 27 percentage points."</p>
<p>Mexico is the country with the second lowest proportion of&nbsp;migrants&nbsp;relative to its total population, with about 66% born in the United States and most of them children of Mexican citizens who returned to the&nbsp;Latin&nbsp;American&nbsp;country.</p>
<p>Mexico, however, is home to the precarious smuggling of&nbsp;migrants&nbsp;en route to the United States, which ended in notable tragedies in recent years.</p>
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<p>(Reporting by Marion Giraldo; Writing by Carolina Pulice; editing by Diane Craft)</p>
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