The manufacturing industry in Mexico: a history of production without distribution Germán Osorio Novela, Alejandro Mungaray Lagarda and Edison Jiménez López
Abstract This paper analyses the historical performance of the Mexican manufacturing industry based on the strategies that began to be adopted in the 1960s. It examines in particular the relationship between the productive increases driven by the opening of the market and the levels of economic well-being observed among people involved in this sector. The results of a sequential analysis of historical trends and estimates of production functions and distribution mechanisms suggest that the productive success of the manufacturing industry has only served to boost the economic well-being of companies and their owners, but not that of their employees or the wider community.
Keywords Industry, industrial enterprises, manufacturing enterprises, history, productivity, income, economic development, industrial statistics, Mexico JEL classification F20, F23, L60, O14, O54 Authors Germán Osorio Novela is a full-time professor and researcher with the Faculty of Economics and International Relations of the Autonomous University of Baja California (Mexico). Email: gosorio@uabc.edu.mx. Alejandro Mungaray Lagarda is a full-time professor with the Faculty of Economics and International Relations of the Autonomous University of Baja California (Mexico). Email: mungaray@uabc.edu.mx. Edison Jiménez López has a PhD in Economics from the Autonomous University of Baja California (Mexico). Email: edison.jimenez@uabc.edu.mx.
