Contribution of off-farm employment to income of indigenous and mestizo households in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Submitted: 2016-04-20
|Accepted: 2016-04-20
|Published: 2016-06-17
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Keywords:
Amazon, Ecuador, off-farm employment, nonfarm employment.
Supporting agencies:
Cristian Vasco agradece a la Secretaría Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología de la República del Ecuador (SENESCYT) por financiar su estancia postdoctoral en la Universidad de la Columbia Británica
Canadá.
Abstract:
This study examines the process of income diversification among indigenous and mestizo households settled in one of the world’s biodiversity hotspots. The results of a random-effect tobit model show that agricultural wage work is the principal income source for homes with scarce or no land. Self-employment employs households with low endowments of education but high endowments of capital. Non-agricultural wage income absorbs educated individuals either indigenous or mestizo.
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