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Table 2 Descriptive statistics by sector and locality

From: Migration magnet: the role of work experience in rural–urban wage differentials

 

Informal

Formal

 

Urban

Rural

Urban

Rural

 

Mean

Std Dev

Mean

Std Dev

Mean

Std Dev

Mean

Std Dev

Hourly wage

23.40

22.01

17.12

17.81

29.98

25.03

24.07

20.85

Female

0.37

0.48

0.25

0.43

0.39

0.49

0.29

0.45

Married

0.51

0.50

0.52

0.50

0.59

0.49

0.56

0.50

Indigenous

0.07

0.25

0.17

0.37

0.06

0.25

0.11

0.31

HH head

0.46

0.50

0.52

0.50

0.50

0.50

0.52

0.50

High education

0.28

0.45

0.10

0.31

0.43

0.50

0.32

0.47

Age 16–25

0.25

0.44

0.25

0.44

0.18

0.38

0.20

0.40

Age 26–35

0.28

0.45

0.27

0.44

0.33

0.47

0.31

0.46

Age 36–45

0.25

0.43

0.25

0.43

0.29

0.45

0.26

0.44

Age >46

0.22

0.41

0.23

0.42

0.21

0.40

0.23

0.42

Experience

21.04

13.26

23.75

13.97

20.37

11.36

21.95

12.63

Hours/year

2101.37

958.78

1976.26

991.16

2283.89

801.48

2193.66

921.60

Raven test

0.55

0.23

0.49

0.24

0.59

0.23

0.54

0.24

Honest

0.81

0.39

0.80

0.40

0.83

0.37

0.82

0.39

Risky

0.37

0.48

0.39

0.49

0.38

0.48

0.41

0.49

Health

2.70

0.64

2.66

0.63

2.80

0.63

2.71

0.70

HH size

9.96

4.56

10.65

4.94

9.39

4.18

9.92

3.97

Nr. of infants

0.38

0.65

0.40

0.65

0.30

0.57

0.38

0.66

Nr. of elderly

0.35

0.89

0.40

0.91

0.32

0.86

0.46

1.04

Farm

0.05

0.22

0.20

0.40

0.03

0.17

0.22

0.42

HDI health

0.91

0.05

0.84

0.06

0.92

0.04

0.85

0.07

HDI education

0.85

0.04

0.80

0.06

0.86

0.03

0.82

0.06

HDI income

0.75

0.07

0.66

0.09

0.77

0.06

0.69

0.08

N

1594

1077

1129

298

  1. Authors’ calculations based on MxFLS-2. Numbers are mean values and standard deviations