TY - BOOK AU - Verner,Dorte ED - World Bank. TI - Activities, employment, and wages in rural and semi-urban Mexico PY - 2005/// CY - Washington, D. C PB - World Bank KW - Wages KW - Mexico KW - Academic achievement KW - Labor market KW - Rural conditions N1 - Also available online; "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 quintal 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 jobs. Moreover it can reduce poverty in a couple of di; Incudes bibliographical references; Open access ER -