Wages and Productivity in Mexican Manufacturing
The author identifies the determinants
of wages and productivity in Mexico over time using national
representative linked employer-employee databases from the
manufacturing sector. She shows that both employers and
employees are benefiting from investments in education,
training, work experience, foreign research and development,
and openness after the North American Free Trade Agreement
(NAFTA). Additional years of schooling have a higher impact
on wages and productivity after NAFTA than before.
Endogenous training effects are larger for productivity than
for wages, suggesting that the employers share the costs and
returns to training. The author also finds that investment
in human capital magnifies technology-driven productivity
gains. By comparing four regions of Mexico-north, center,
south, and Mexico City-regional wage and productivity gaps
are found to have increased over time.
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Bibliographic Details
| Main Author: |
Lopez-Acevedo, Gladys |
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| Language: | English
en_US |
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| Published: |
World Bank, Washington, DC
2003-01
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| Subjects: | WAGE DETERMINATION,
LABOR PRODUCTIVITY,
MANUFACTURING SECTOR,
WORKERS EDUCATION,
RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT,
NORTH AMERICAN FREE TRADE AGREEMENT,
RETURNS TO SCHOOLING,
SKILLED WORKERS,
HUMAN CAPITAL INVESTMENTS,
TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS,
PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH,
REGIONAL WAGE DISPARITIES,
TRADE LIBERALIZATION COAL,
COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE,
DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS,
DEVELOPED COUNTRIES,
EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE,
EMPLOYMENT,
EQUATIONS,
EXPECTED PRESENT VALUE,
EXPORTS,
FREE TRADE,
GROWTH RATE,
HUMAN CAPITAL,
INCOME,
INEQUALITY,
LABOR INPUTS,
OIL,
OPPORTUNITY COST,
OWNERSHIP STRUCTURE,
POSITIVE EFFECTS,
PRODUCTION FUNCTIONS,
PRODUCTIVITY,
PRODUCTIVITY INCREASES,
QUESTIONNAIRES,
TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION,
TRAINING PROGRAMS,
VALUE ADDED,
WAGE DIFFERENTIALS,
WAGE EQUATION COEFFICIENTS,
WAGES, |
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2003/01/2128870/wages-productivity-mexican-manufacturing
https://hdl.handle.net/10986/19182
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