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Evolución de la competitividad de los estados mexicanos en el siglo XXI ¿Quién gana o pierde?

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  • Kurt Unger

    (Division of Economics, CIDE)

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This exercise has estimated economic competitiveness for the 32 federal states of Mexico taking into account production, productivity, employment and wages in 81 activities more than 96% of total GNP in 2013. There are two types of Mexican states. The thirteen competitive states are more diversified and show higher levels of productivity and wages. They are also better integrated to the international economy, and comprise mostly industrial mature states such as Nuevo León, DF, Querétaro, Estado de México, Jalisco, other border states and Guanajuato and San Luis Potosí in central México. For the other ninetheen states, the lack of productivity is compensatedthrough lower salaries. These include Southern and Southeastern states, plus most in the lower Pacific coast. These conditions have remained the same over the recent years. In short, we can not expect convergence merely by the effect of time, in despite that two states of the Bajio region reached now the competitive group. All the contrary, states competing on the basis of productivity become more competitive without having to restore their competitive advantage into lower salaries.

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  • Kurt Unger, 2016. "Evolución de la competitividad de los estados mexicanos en el siglo XXI ¿Quién gana o pierde?," Working papers DTE 599, CIDE, División de Economía.
  • Handle: RePEc:emc:wpaper:dte599
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    Keywords

    Specialization; Concentration; Productivity; Competitiveness; States;
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    JEL classification:

    • D24 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Production; Cost; Capital; Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity; Capacity
    • J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
    • L25 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Firm Performance
    • R12 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity; Interregional Trade (economic geography)

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