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008			s2005 wau e 001 0 eng d
035			_z57427
039			_a31215 _cTLC
100	1		_aVerner, Dorte.
245	1	0	_aActivities, employment, and wages in rural and semi-urban Mexico / _cDorte Verne.
260			_aWashington, D. C : _bWorld Bank, _c2005.
300			_a39p ; _c29 cm.
440		0	_aPolicy research working papers ; _vno. 3561
500			_aAlso available online.
500			_a"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
504			_aIncudes bibliographical references.
506			_aOpen access.
650		0	_aWages _xMexico.
650		0	_aAcademic achievement _xMexico.
650		0	_aLabor market _xMexico.
650		0	_aMexico _xRural conditions.
710	2		_aWorld Bank.
949			_aBSPC _bSPC _cHG3881.5 _d.W57 no.3561 _g57427 _5N
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