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01-12-2009, 04:50 PM
Arturo Pichardo, president of the Dominican Engineers, Architects and Surveyors Association (CODIA) says that 85% of all construction jobs are now filled by Haitian laborers. Quoted in Hoy, Pichardo says that construction companies prefer to employ Haitian laborers, as it is considerably cheaper to Dominican labor. Pichardo claims that this influx of Haitian laborers has greatly hurt the Dominican labor market and can be blamed for an increase in unemployment.

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