, Chile, El Salvador, Mexico and Uruguay, for the period 19922006. Six dimensions are analysed: income, child attendance at … school, education of the household head, sanitation, water and shelter. Over the study period, El Salvador, Brazil, Mexico … and Mexico together with rural areas of Chile display significantly higher and more simultaneous deprivations than urban …

in the capital intensive segment of the formal sectors affects the urban informal workers adversely, whereas productivity …

. The aim of this paper is two-fold: first, we examine the evolution of total factor productivity in Mexico’s manufacturing … advantage of Mexico’s heterogeneity across regions in terms of productivity, market regulation, financial constraints and firm …Over the last decade, Mexico’s unit labour costs decreased relative to other emerging markets’, especially compared to …

Although market concentration is one of the main impediments to productivity growth globally, data constraints have … the effects of local industry concentration on productivity. The main results show that a decline by 10 points in the … factor productivity of revenue. Local industry concentration also has heterogeneous effects on productivity across industries …

longitudinal plant-level data covering all of Mexico from 2005–2010, and using an instrumental variable strategy that exploits … plausibly exogenous spatiotemporal variation in the homicide rate during the outbreak of drug-trade related violence in Mexico … violence has significant distortive effects on domestic industrial development in Mexico and shed light on the characteristics …