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Table 5 Rural-to-urban migrants’ labour market performance

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

 

Informal

Formal

Migrant

−0.081**

−0.195

−0.019

−0.183

 

(0.035)

(0.135)

(0.036)

(0.162)

Migrant × Exp.

--

−0.002

--

0.004

  

(0.009)

 

(0.011)

Migrant × Exp2

--

0.000

--

−0.000

  

(0.000)

 

(0.000)

Migrant × High Educ.

--

0.147*

--

0.077

  

(0.083)

 

(0.076)

Migrant × Raven score

--

0.170

--

0.075

  

(0.144)

 

(0.157)

Experience

0.020***

0.021***

0.023***

0.023***

 

(0.005)

(0.006)

(0.006)

(0.007)

Experience2

−0.000***

−0.000***

−0.000***

−0.000***

 

(0.000)

(0.000)

(0.000)

(0.000)

High education

0.189***

0.149***

0.306***

0.284***

 

(0.045)

(0.052)

(0.041)

(0.047)

Raven test

0.104

0.016

0.278***

0.250**

 

(0.073)

(0.101)

(0.078)

(0.099)

Hours/year

−0.000***

−0.000***

−0.000***

−0.000***

 

(0.000)

(0.000)

(0.000)

(0.000)

Married

0.105***

0.102***

0.025

0.022

 

(0.035)

(0.035)

(0.036)

(0.036)

Indigenous

−0.058

−0.053

0.008

0.008

 

(0.068)

(0.068)

(0.071)

(0.071)

Female

−0.160***

−0.160***

−0.068

−0.070

 

(0.046)

(0.046)

(0.044)

(0.044)

HH head

0.007

0.013

0.057

0.055

 

(0.042)

(0.042)

(0.047)

(0.047)

HH size

−0.004

−0.004

−0.010**

−0.010**

 

(0.004)

(0.004)

(0.004)

(0.004)

Constant

3.318***

3.372***

3.796***

3.860***

 

(0.170)

(0.178)

(0.164)

(0.174)

State dummies

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Industry dummies

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Occup. dummies

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

N

1594

1594

1129

1129

R2

0.307

0.310

0.480

0.481

  1. Robust standard errors in parentheses. *, ** and *** denote significance level of 10%, 5% and 1%, respectively