期刊名称：Iberoamericana: Nordic Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies
电子版ISSN：2002-4509
出版年度：2019
卷号：48
期号：1
页码：12-27
DOI：10.16993/iberoamericana.433
出版社：Stockholm University Press
摘要：Mexico’s indigenous peoples are amongst the country’s most vulnerable and marginalized. According to the Mexican National Council for the Evaluation of Social Development Policy, the percentage of indigenous peoples who live in poverty in Mexico is nearly double that of the general population: 70.3 percent versus 38.6 percent, respectively. In this context, the present study aims to explore why the gap between the indigenous and non-indigenous populations is not closing, even after occupational differences and the rural-urban divide are taken into consideration. This paper employs Oaxaca-Blinder (OB) decomposition techniques as well as two quantile decomposition approaches with data from the 2016 National Household Expenditure Revenue Survey (ENIGH) to analyze wage differentials along the entire wage distribution and differences in the prevalence of informal employment among indigenous and non-indigenous peoples in Mexico. Understanding the underlying causes of these disparities is crucial for the design of sustainable policies that may help reduce the gap in the living conditions of indigenous and non-indigenous peoples. Findings confirm that differences in coefficients account for a significant proportion of the gap in indigenous earnings, indicating that indigenous disadvantage would persist even if human capital outcomes and access to formal employment were to improve for this population subgroup.
