Economía de aglomeración y salarios en México. Un análisis en mercados laborales

This paper investigates as various measures related to agglomeration economies and New Economic Geography (NEG) explain the wage gap between manufacturing workers, using as the analysis unit a labor markets in Mexico. The results show that the variables of density and economic diversity, as well as the physical distance to american market are statistically significant and explain more than 20% of the differences in wages, even after controlling for observable characteristics of individuals. These findings are robust to problems of endogeneity and spatial dependence.