This paper examines the effects of intra-industry imports on total factor productivity (TFP). Employing a new sample of 25 Mexican manufacturing industries with annual data from 1984 to 2000, interesting panel data results emerge. First, we find the positive impact of intra-industry imports on...

In December 1993, restrictions to foreign ownership across major Mexican economic sectors were abolished. This paper studies output, industrialization intensity, ``international infrastructure", and government expenditures on infrastructure as determinants of FDI inflows into Mexican states over...

How do relative wages (between skilled and unskilled workers) respond to technical progress and to relative supply shifts? An empirical model of the wage premium for Mexican manufacturing is employed on two monthly data samples: one, from 1987 to 1995, displays the well-documented rising trend...