Table 4.
Wage regression predicting hourly wage (in 2010 U.S. dollars) earned by Mexican migrants to Canada and the United States
| Characteristics | Regression coefficient |
Standard error |
|---|---|---|
| Demographic background | ||
| Age | 0.028 | 0.028 |
| Age squared | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Married | 0.071 | 0.129 |
| Minor children | 0.008 | 0.032 |
| Occupation abroad | ||
| Agricultural | — | — |
| Manual | 0.058 | 0.125 |
| Paid in cash | 0.038 | 0.104 |
| Documentation | ||
| Undocumented in U.S. | — | — |
| Temporary worker in Canada | 0.376*** | 0.130 |
| Temporary worker in U.S. | 0.147 | 0.153 |
| Permanent resident in U.S. | 0.104 | 0.281 |
| Physical capital | ||
| Owns farmland | 0.055 | 0.109 |
| Owns house | 0.023 | 0.112 |
| Owns business | 0.094 | 0.130 |
| Human capital | ||
| Years of education | 0.001 | 0.015 |
| Has prior foreign experience | 0.021 | 0.143 |
| Intercept | 2.610*** | 0.468 |
| R-squared | 0.211 | |
| Number of migrants | 177 | |
*
p < 0.10; p < 0.05; p < 0.01.