Activities, Employment, and Wages in Rural and Semi-Urban Mexico

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dc.creatorVerner, Dorte
dc.date2012-06-25T22:22:45Z
dc.date2012-06-25T22:22:45Z
dc.date2005-04
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-01T01:21:33Z
dc.descriptionThe 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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dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2005/04/5734746/activities-employment-wages-rural-semi-urban-mexico
dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/8990
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.1596/1813-9450-3561
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/417368
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherWorld Bank, Washington, DC
dc.relationPolicy Research Working Paper; No. 3561
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rightshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/
dc.rightsWorld Bank
dc.subjectACCOUNTING
dc.subjectAGED
dc.subjectAGING
dc.subjectAGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION
dc.subjectCHOICE OF OCCUPATION
dc.subjectCITIES
dc.subjectDEMOGRAPHICS
dc.subjectECONOMIC ACTIVITY
dc.subjectECONOMIC GROWTH
dc.subjectECONOMIC SECTORS
dc.subjectEDUCATION/PRIMARY
dc.subjectEMPLOYMENT
dc.subjectFAMILIES
dc.subjectFISHING
dc.subjectFOOD PROCESSING
dc.subjectFORESTRY
dc.subjectHIGH UNEMPLOYMENT
dc.subjectHUMAN CAPITAL
dc.subjectINCOME
dc.subjectINCOME DISTRIBUTION
dc.subjectINFLATION
dc.subjectINFORMAL SECTOR
dc.subjectJOB CREATION
dc.subjectLABOR FORCE
dc.subjectLABOR MARKET
dc.subjectLABOR MARKETS
dc.subjectLABOR PRODUCTIVITY
dc.subjectLIFE CYCLE
dc.subjectLIFTING
dc.subjectMARKETING
dc.subjectMEDICAL SERVICES
dc.subjectMETALS
dc.subjectMIGRANTS
dc.subjectMIGRATION
dc.subjectNATIONAL INCOME
dc.subjectPOLICY RESEARCH
dc.subjectPOPULATION GROWTH
dc.subjectPRODUCTIVITY
dc.subjectPURCHASING POWER
dc.subjectREAL WAGES
dc.subjectSOCIAL CAPITAL
dc.subjectSOCIAL NETWORKS
dc.subjectSOCIAL SERVICES
dc.subjectTECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE
dc.subjectTERTIARY EDUCATION
dc.subjectTOBACCO
dc.subjectUNEMPLOYMENT
dc.subjectURBAN AREAS
dc.subjectURBANIZATION
dc.subjectWAGE DIFFERENTIALS
dc.subjectWAGE DISTRIBUTION
dc.subjectWAGES
dc.subjectWORK FORCE
dc.subjectWORKER PRODUCTIVITY
dc.subjectWORKERS
dc.titleActivities, Employment, and Wages in Rural and Semi-Urban Mexico

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