Abstract Mexico exhibits the lowest labor productivity of all OECD countries and main groups of nations. However, little is known about its behavior at the sector-state level, or whether it was affected by the global financial crisis (GFC). Therefore, this paper explores the extent to which the GFC affected the convergence—catch-up—process of seventeen Mexican economic sectors in the 1999–2014 period. Moreover, this paper identifies the regions that were more affected by the GFC and analyzes whether the sectoral composition is driving the states’ labor productivity convergence patterns. Results suggest that the GFC pushed 13 economic sectors toward convergence and changed the direction of the pre-GFC catch-up trend in 15; that the labor productivity convergence pattern barely changed in the north of Mexico in the short term, and that the biggest changes occurred in the center and south regions; and that states’ sectoral composition drives their labor productivity patterns.

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墨西哥劳动生产率趋同

摘要 在所有经合组织国家和主要国家集团中，墨西哥的劳动生产率最低。然而，人们对其在部门-国家层面的行为，或者它是否受到全球金融危机 (GFC) 的影响知之甚少。因此，本文探讨了全球金融危机对 1999-2014 年期间墨西哥 17 个经济部门的趋同——追赶——过程的影响。此外，本文确定了受全球金融危机影响较大的地区，并分析了行业构成是否正在推动各州的劳动生产率趋同模式。结果表明，全球金融危机推动了 13 个经济部门趋同，并改变了 15 个经济危机前追赶趋势的方向；短期内墨西哥北部的劳动生产率趋同模式几乎没有变化，变化最大的是中部和南部地区；并且各州的部门构成推动了它们的劳动生产率模式。