Keywords
growth and development analysis
industrial studies
industrialisation
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Abstract
In the period between 1980 and 2003 the manufacturing industry in Mexico experienced a dispersion process that has resulted in a grater industrial concentration in the country. This situation has favoured most of the States in the north and those around Mexico City and the State of Mexico. The main aim of this paper is to establish an econometric model based on the generalised momentum method in order to evaluate the impact of industrial linkage, agglomeration and distance on the decisions for the localisation of manufacturing enterprises in Mexico. The econometric estimates show some evidence that the spreading of industry had negative effects, which have weakened the intra-industrial relationships, the scale economies and the industrial linkage.
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