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

Kurt Unger ()
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Kurt Unger: Division of Economics, CIDE

No DTE 599, Working Papers from CIDE, División de Economía

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Specialization; Concentration; Productivity; Competitiveness; States (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D24 J24 L25 R12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 103 pages
Date: 2016-09
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