SKILLED LABOR, SPECIALIZATION, AND URBAN LABOR PRODUCTIVITY ON MEXICO'S NORTHERN BORDER: A PANEL ANALYSIS OF MIXED EFFECTS

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Jorge Eduardo Mendoza Cota
José Antonio Cabrera Pereyra

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This article evaluates the impact of skilled labor on productivity and returns of labor at the level of industrial subsectors in the most populated urban settings of Mexico’s northern region during 2001-2009. It was found that within the 53 subsectors considered in this study, the percentage of workers with a high level of schooling increased from 9.69% to 14.34%. The estimations of the fixed-panel, random, and mixed models suggest that the returns to scale increase as long as positive capital flows and foreign direct investment are occurring. At the city level, an important variability was detected in results, but this is mostly due to the characteristics of the economic activity rather than the geographic location of the cities.

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Mendoza Cota, J. E., & Cabrera Pereyra, J. A. (2015). SKILLED LABOR, SPECIALIZATION, AND URBAN LABOR PRODUCTIVITY ON MEXICO’S NORTHERN BORDER: A PANEL ANALYSIS OF MIXED EFFECTS. Investigación Económica, 73(287). Recuperado a partir de https://www.revistas.unam.mx/index.php/rie/article/view/50511