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Table 4 Effect of ethnic identification on earnings from various ethnic groups

From: Acculturation and the labor market in Mexico

 

Proportion

Regressions

 

(%)

(1)

(2)

(3)

Indigenous language

    

Yuto-Nahua

29.67

−0.1739

−0.1534

−0.1522

  

(0.0040)

(0.0037)

(0.0036)

Oto-Mangue

28.13

−0.1489

−0.1029

−0.1111

  

(0.0040)

(0.0037)

(0.0036)

Maya

32.38

−0.1711

−0.1538

−0.1663

  

(0.0048)

(0.0044)

(0.0043)

Totonaco-Tepehua

4.05

−0.1386

−0.0772

−0.1018

  

(0.0073)

(0.0067)

(0.0066)

Tarasca

2.40

−0.1875

−0.1958

−0.1659

  

(0.0143)

(0.0133)

(0.0131)

Mixe-Zoque

2.83

−0.0396

−0.0105

−0.0348

  

(0.0079)

(0.0073)

(0.0072)

Chontal de Oaxaca

0.04

0.1953

0.1714

0.1405

  

(0.0650)

(0.0603)

(0.0591)

Huave

0.35

−0.4076

−0.2394

−0.2580

  

(0.0258)

(0.0239)

(0.0234)

Other

0.13

0.2661

0.2447

0.2197

  

(0.1570)

(0.1456)

(0.1428)

Years of education

 

0.0550

0.0297

0.0272

  

(0.0003)

(0.0003)

(0.0003)

Age

 

0.0416

0.0331

0.0311

  

(0.0005)

(0.0005)

(0.0005)

Age2

 

−0.0005

−0.0004

−0.0004

  

(0.0000)

(0.0000)

(0.0000)

Additional controls

    

Occupation

  

y

y

Industry

   

y

R 2

 

0.2523

0.3570

0.3815

No of obs

 

432,517

432,517

432,517

  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 regression only include individuals who are Indigenous. The omitted category is the group of Indigenous who are monolingual in Spanish. The family “Other” is composed of three families: Algica, Cochimi-Yumana, and Seri