Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/183188 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
KCG Working Paper No. 13
Publisher: 
Kiel Centre for Globalization (KCG), Kiel
Abstract: 
Foreign direct investment (FDI) flows to Mexico are substantial and play an important role in the Mexican economy since the mid-1990s. These investments reflect the activities of multinational firms that shape to some extent the economic landscape and sectoral structure in this host country. We illustrate that there is considerable variation in the amounts of FDI and structural change within the country and across time. Based on this, the paper's main purpose is to analyze whether there is a significant impact of FDI on structural change. We conduct an empirical analysis covering the period 2006-2016. We use the fixed-effects estimator where the unit of observation is a Mexican state for which we calculate structural change from the reallocation of labor between sectors. The results suggest that (if any) there is a positive effect from FDI on growth-enhancing structural change. This effect depends critically on the lag structure of FDI. Moreover, there is some evidence that the positive effect (i) arises from FDI flows in the industry sector and (ii) is present for medium- and low-skilled labor reallocation.
Subjects: 
FDI
structural change
labor reallocation
Mexico
multinational firms
economic development
JEL: 
F21
F63
L16
O10
O54
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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