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This paper proposes a method for estimating the factor shares using cross sectional household survey data containing detailed information on household income by source. The application of this method to the case of Mexico using data from every available household survey that is representative at the national level, yields the following results: (i) factor shares in Mexico are significantly higher than those obtained from National Income and Product Accounts (NIPA) data; and (ii) factor shares in Mexico have been relatively constant over the time period analyzed. The paper then develops the implications of the differences between factor shares obtained from …

This paper analyzes the dynamics of the distributions of per capita Gross Domestic Product (GDP), the infant mortality rate, and the adult literacy rate across states in Mexico during the period 1940-2000. It also analyzes the hypothesis of convergence to a common level of per capita income, infant mortality, and adult literacy among states. The approach used here exploits both the time-series and cross-section dimensions of the data by tracking the evolution over time of the entire cross-section distributions. Through the estimation of transition matrices for each of these welfare indicators, we are able to analyze changes in the external …

En este trabajo se analiza al Índice de Desarrollo Humano (IDH) como medida de desarrollo y se construye un IDH a nivel de las entidades federativas en México utilizando información para el año 2000. La investigación argumenta que el IDH carece de una base teórica adecuada, por lo que resulta una medida de desarrollo arbitraria. Asimismo, el trabajo muestra empíricamente que en el caso de las entidades federativas mexicanas el IDH aporta poca información adicional a la que se obtiene utilizando solamente el Producto Interno Bruto per cápita como medida de desarrollo. El trabajo concluye presentando una medida de desarrollo …