The stereotype of the Haitian worker in the Dominican Republic is of a poor sugar cane cutter. A investigative report carried out by the Listín Diario determined that is no longer true. According to the report, most of the Haitians that live in the Dominican Republic have integrated into the informal economy of the Dminican Republic and are street merchants, construction workers, or harvesters of coffee or other higher yield crops than sugar, the crop that originally brought them to this country.
