Wage inequity of indigenous workers in Mexico
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Wage inequality, Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition, Quantile regressionAbstract
This paper is a study of the wage distribution of indigenous workers and its changes over time. It offers and analysis of wage inequality for this type of worker compared to non-indigenous people by occupation type. The main objective is to provide some evidence that wages have become less unequal for both types of workers in recents years. Several statistical tools are used for measuring inequality and estimating the wage gap, such as the Gini index, Wasserstein distance, kernel densities, Oaxaca-Blinder descomposition and quantile regression. This study confirms that indigenous workers receive lower wages compared with non-indigenous workers, but the overall wage inequality is decreasing for all workers, with the larger decrease for indigenous people, although the improvement in wage equality is mainly reflected in the middle and upper parts of the wage distribution.
JEL Classification: J15, J17, C33.
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