Resumen

OCEGUEDA HERNANDEZ, Juan Manuel; VARELA LLAMAS, Rogelio  y  CASTILLO PONCE, Ramón. Diferencias de crecimiento entre los estados de la frontera norte de México: una explicación. Econ: teor. práct [online]. 2014, n.41, pp.07-44. ISSN 2448-7481.

The differences in economic growth rates among the six states of the northern border of Mexico on 1993-2010 are analyzed and an explanation is proposed that highlights the role of the migration through its effects on amount of labor force and population, which affected the employment structure in all of the border states. It also emphasizes the role played by the differences in public investment and its possible effects on the private investment, which decreased new jobs in the formal sector of the economy. Both phenomena increased low-productivity activities, specially those related to the informal and household sector, which effects on growth were conditioned by the magnitude and how these events interacted.

Palabras llave : regional economies analysis; economic growth; demographic trends; public investment; productivity of economic sectors.