de los municipios de México y condados de los Estados Unidos. Específicamente, se busca determinar si existe convergencia …. En cambio, en el caso de México se encuentra una dinámica congruente con crecimiento de la manufactura en los condados de … los Estados Unidos y los municipios de México diverge en el tiem …

levels of locally-owned firms in Mexico have converged to those of foreign-owned firms. Second, both the rate of productivity … ownership of an industry. Third, the productivity gap between Mexico and U.S. manufacturing has diminished between the mid-1960s …

, industrialization, and education and that Mexico would have grown even more rapidly if trade and investment had been liberalized sooner …In 1950 Mexico entered an economic takeoff and grew rapidly for more than 30 years. Growth stopped during the crises of … 1982-1995, despite major reforms, including liberalization of foreign trade and investment. Since then growth has been …

incomes in the east have now reached the western level, and investment per capita has been much higher than in the west …. However, every third deutschmark spent in the east has been coming from the west, investment in equipment has fallen below the … west Germany. Excessively high wages coupled with investment incentives that made the cost of capital negative rank high …