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Table 10 Log-earnings regressions by employment status: census data

From: Acculturation and the labor market in Mexico

 

Indigenous and Mestizos

 

Indigenous only

 

Wage worker

Self-employed

 

Wage worker

Self-employed

 

(1)

(2)

 

(3)

(4)

Identify as indigenous

−0.0689

−0.1293

   
 

(0.0016)

(0.0039)

   

Indigenous language

−0.1117

−0.2167

   
 

(0.0020)

(0.0046)

   

Monolingual Spanish

   

0.2687

0.3440

    

(0.0064)

(0.0115)

Bilingual

   

0.1710

0.1540

    

(0.0062)

(0.0105)

Years of education

0.0355

0.0402

 

0.0260

0.0253

 

(0.0002)

(0.0004)

 

(0.0003)

(0.0007)

Age

0.0374

0.0422

 

0.0304

0.0356

 

(0.0003)

(0.0007)

 

(0.0005)

(0.0012)

Age2

−0.0004

−0.0005

 

−0.0004

−0.0004

 

(0.0000)

(0.0000)

 

(0.0000)

(0.0000)

Additional controls

     

Occupation

y

y

 

y

y

Industry

y

y

 

y

y

R 2

0.3772

0.3776

 

0.3893

0.3571

No of obs

1,274,626

416,760

 

287,889

127,589

  1. Notes: Standard errors in parenthesis. Data from the 2010 Mexican Census. Sample includes males ages 16–64 not attending school. The dependent variable is the natural logarithm of monthly earnings. All specifications control for size of location, state of residence, and state of birth. The regressions in columns (1)–(2) include Indigenous and Mestizo workers. The regressions in columns (3)–(4) only include individuals who are Indigenous, and the omitted category in these columns is Monolingual Indigenous
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