Using data from 6378 Mexican firms for the 2012–2013 period, this paper estimates the effect of competition with China for the US market on the innovation efforts of the Mexican manufacturing sector. After controlling for the influence of several variables, we find a U-curve shaped...

Manufacturing industries are in dynamic changes in both developed and developing countries. It has increasingly been argued in the literature that for a company which strives for market competitiveness, it does not suffice just to excel at managing company s assets. Indeed, it has been suggested...

Although there exists a vast literature on convergence and divergence of income levels across countries or regions at the aggregate level, there is only little work on convergence and/or diver- gence processes of productivity and wage levels at the more disaggregated industrial level. These are...