Activities, Employment, and Wages in Rural and Semi-Urban Mexico
The author addresses the labor markets in rural and semi-urban Mexico. The empirical analyses show that non-farm income shares increase with overall consumption levels and, also, with time. Rural-dwellers in lower quintiles of the consumption distribution tend to earn a larger share of their nonagri...
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okr-10986-89902021-04-23T14:02:42Z Activities, Employment, and Wages in Rural and Semi-Urban Mexico Verner, Dorte ACCOUNTING AGED AGING AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION CHOICE OF OCCUPATION CITIES DEMOGRAPHICS ECONOMIC ACTIVITY ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC SECTORS EDUCATION/PRIMARY EMPLOYMENT FAMILIES FISHING FOOD PROCESSING FORESTRY HIGH UNEMPLOYMENT HUMAN CAPITAL INCOME INCOME DISTRIBUTION INFLATION INFORMAL SECTOR JOB CREATION LABOR FORCE LABOR MARKET LABOR MARKETS LABOR PRODUCTIVITY LIFE CYCLE LIFTING MARKETING MEDICAL SERVICES METALS MIGRANTS MIGRATION NATIONAL INCOME POLICY RESEARCH POPULATION GROWTH PRODUCTIVITY PURCHASING POWER REAL WAGES SOCIAL CAPITAL SOCIAL NETWORKS SOCIAL SERVICES TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE TERTIARY EDUCATION TOBACCO UNEMPLOYMENT URBAN AREAS URBANIZATION WAGE DIFFERENTIALS WAGE DISTRIBUTION WAGES WORK FORCE WORKER PRODUCTIVITY WORKERS The author addresses the labor markets in rural and semi-urban Mexico. The empirical analyses show that non-farm income shares increase with overall consumption levels and, also, with time. Rural-dwellers in lower quintiles of the consumption distribution tend to earn a larger share of their nonagricultural incomes from wage labor activities. For the poorest, low-productivity wage labor activities are important. The quantile wage regression analysis for rural Mexico shows a rather heterogeneous impact pattern of individual characteristics across the wage distribution on monthly wages. The author's findings reveal that education is key to earning higher wages, and that workers in more dispersed rural areas earn less than their peers in semi-urban rural areas (localities with less than 15,000 inhabitants). The rural non-farm sector is heterogeneous and includes a great variety of activities and productivity levels across non-farm jobs. Moreover it can reduce poverty in a couple of distinct but qualitatively important ways in rural Mexico. The analysis of non-farm employment in rural Mexico suggests that the two key determinants of access to employment and productivity in non-farm activities are education and location. 2012-06-25T22:22:45Z 2012-06-25T22:22:45Z 2005-04 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2005/04/5734746/activities-employment-wages-rural-semi-urban-mexico http://hdl.handle.net/10986/8990 English Policy Research Working Paper; No. 3561 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Publications & Research Latin America & Caribbean Mexico |
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ACCOUNTING AGED AGING AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION CHOICE OF OCCUPATION CITIES DEMOGRAPHICS ECONOMIC ACTIVITY ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC SECTORS EDUCATION/PRIMARY EMPLOYMENT FAMILIES FISHING FOOD PROCESSING FORESTRY HIGH UNEMPLOYMENT HUMAN CAPITAL INCOME INCOME DISTRIBUTION INFLATION INFORMAL SECTOR JOB CREATION LABOR FORCE LABOR MARKET LABOR MARKETS LABOR PRODUCTIVITY LIFE CYCLE LIFTING MARKETING MEDICAL SERVICES METALS MIGRANTS MIGRATION NATIONAL INCOME POLICY RESEARCH POPULATION GROWTH PRODUCTIVITY PURCHASING POWER REAL WAGES SOCIAL CAPITAL SOCIAL NETWORKS SOCIAL SERVICES TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE TERTIARY EDUCATION TOBACCO UNEMPLOYMENT URBAN AREAS URBANIZATION WAGE DIFFERENTIALS WAGE DISTRIBUTION WAGES WORK FORCE WORKER PRODUCTIVITY WORKERS |
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ACCOUNTING AGED AGING AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION CHOICE OF OCCUPATION CITIES DEMOGRAPHICS ECONOMIC ACTIVITY ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC SECTORS EDUCATION/PRIMARY EMPLOYMENT FAMILIES FISHING FOOD PROCESSING FORESTRY HIGH UNEMPLOYMENT HUMAN CAPITAL INCOME INCOME DISTRIBUTION INFLATION INFORMAL SECTOR JOB CREATION LABOR FORCE LABOR MARKET LABOR MARKETS LABOR PRODUCTIVITY LIFE CYCLE LIFTING MARKETING MEDICAL SERVICES METALS MIGRANTS MIGRATION NATIONAL INCOME POLICY RESEARCH POPULATION GROWTH PRODUCTIVITY PURCHASING POWER REAL WAGES SOCIAL CAPITAL SOCIAL NETWORKS SOCIAL SERVICES TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE TERTIARY EDUCATION TOBACCO UNEMPLOYMENT URBAN AREAS URBANIZATION WAGE DIFFERENTIALS WAGE DISTRIBUTION WAGES WORK FORCE WORKER PRODUCTIVITY WORKERS Verner, Dorte Activities, Employment, and Wages in Rural and Semi-Urban Mexico |
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The author addresses the labor markets in rural and semi-urban Mexico. The empirical analyses show that non-farm income shares increase with overall consumption levels and, also, with time. Rural-dwellers in lower quintiles of the consumption distribution tend to earn a larger share of their nonagricultural incomes from wage labor activities. For the poorest, low-productivity wage labor activities are important. The quantile wage regression analysis for rural Mexico shows a rather heterogeneous impact pattern of individual characteristics across the wage distribution on monthly wages. The author's findings reveal that education is key to earning higher wages, and that workers in more dispersed rural areas earn less than their peers in semi-urban rural areas (localities with less than 15,000 inhabitants). The rural non-farm sector is heterogeneous and includes a great variety of activities and productivity levels across non-farm jobs. Moreover it can reduce poverty in a couple of distinct but qualitatively important ways in rural Mexico. The analysis of non-farm employment in rural Mexico suggests that the two key determinants of access to employment and productivity in non-farm activities are education and location. |
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Activities, Employment, and Wages in Rural and Semi-Urban Mexico |
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Activities, Employment, and Wages in Rural and Semi-Urban Mexico |
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Activities, Employment, and Wages in Rural and Semi-Urban Mexico |
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Activities, Employment, and Wages in Rural and Semi-Urban Mexico |
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Activities, Employment, and Wages in Rural and Semi-Urban Mexico |
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activities, employment, and wages in rural and semi-urban mexico |
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World Bank, Washington, DC |
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2012 |
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