Title: Is Mexico a Lumpy Country?

Abstract: Courant and Deardorff (1992) show theoretically that an extremely uneven distribution of factors within a country can induce behavior at odds with overall comparative advantage.We demonstrate the importance of this insight for developing countries. We show that Mexican regions exhibit substantial variation in skill abundance, offer significantly different relative factor rewards, and produce disjoint sets of industries...

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Publication ID: 44

Category Description: General Issues of International Trade Statistics

Publication Type: Paper

Inistitute: Review of International Economics

Year: 2010

Month: March

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Author 1: Andrew B. Bernard

Author 2: Raymond Robertson

Author 3:Peter K. Schott

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Link: http://mba.tuck.dartmouth.edu/pages/faculty/andrew.bernard/mexico.pdf

Tags: Geographic concentration of factors , lumpiness , Mexico ,

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