labor productivity of the central region of Mexico at the municipio (county) level. In particular, we measure the spatial … autocorrelation of the labor productivity and use a spatial approach to study the intra-distributional changes of the productivity …. The results show that the labor productivity reveals strong local disparities and spatial dependency across municipios …

-technological innovation and the impact of innovation on service firms' productivity in Mexico. Results from a three-stage econometric model … importance of promoting learning and innovation as the basis for improved productivity of service firms in Mexico. Specifically …' innovation performance and productivity. Because most available studies focus on manufacturing firms, very little is known about …

relevance of the IDB's program in relation to Mexico's fundamental challenges, as well as to the Bank's strategy developed … during the period in an effort to become more relevant in Mexico: work with the private sector, work with subnational …, technical, and operational benefits to Mexico. The country program has been relevant to Mexico's structural challenges and to …

This exercise estimated competitiveness for the 32 federal states of Mexico taking into account production …, productivity, employment and wages in 82 activities representing 95% of total GNP. There are two types of states. The dozen of … competitive states are more diversified and show higher levels of productivity and wages. They are also better integrated to the …

Concentrates on identifying the mechanisms by which foreign investment affects productivity in recipient countries …. Conducts a firm-level study of manufacturing plants in Mexico and test for performance differences embodied in factor … productivity between domestic and foreign (majority and minority) owned plants. In addition checks for the existence of spillovers …

Korea, Mexico and Poland. Using industry-level data, we show that i) technology diffusion and productivity gains tend to be … regional: Korea (Mexico) (Poland) benefits mainly from trade with Japan (North America) (the EU); and ii) the dynamic version … of the "natural trading partners" hypothesis seems to hold for Korea and Mexico though not necessarily for Poland. …

Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) into Mexico has increased dramatically since the inception of the North American Free … industry productivity and wages over the first ten years of NAFTA, paying particular attention to the source country and … composition, and sources from 1994-2005. There is evidence of a positive effect of FDI on productivity, particularly total factor …

This exercise estimated competitiveness for the 32 federal states of Mexico taking into account production …, productivity, employment and wages in 82 activities representing 95% of total GNP. There are two types of states. The dozen of … competitive states are more diversified and show higher levels of productivity and wages. They are also better integrated to the …