Following the Crépon-Duguet-Mairesse Model (1998), using a database with 2,078 Mexican manufacturing establishments from 2004 to 2006, adapting available proxy variables and proposing a different productivity estimation, this article sets out: Which is their innovation propensity? Which factors push on their innovation efforts? Are these efforts and the innovation favoring labor productivity? The main findings are: Mexican manufacturing establishments with a higher innovation propensity are the largest, with high technological intensity and market share. Advertising, knowledge appropriability, FDI, TT and access to credit have a positive effect on innovation efforts. Moreover, the innovation effort, together with export levels, FDI and access to technology have influenced the innovation of new processes and/or designs, particularly in local firms as compared to foreign firms. Finally, the variables: innovation, labour remunerations and capital intensity have a substantial effect on labor productivity and at a lower level market share, FDI and total quality control.

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Diferencias de género en la elección del sitio de trabajo en un contexto de crisis Lilia Domínguez V. y Flor Brown G. RESUMENTrabajar desde el domicilio es una opción que difiere de otras formas laborales. Detrás de esta modalidad de trabajo no solo están la globalización y la subcontratación, sino también las relaciones desiguales de género en el hogar. Mediante una estimación de dos regresiones multilogísticas, se demuestra que las características del trabajo domiciliario y fuera de este, como también del desempleo, difieren entre sexos tanto en la distribución de los rangos de edad entre hombres y mujeres por sitio de trabajo, como con respecto a nivel de escolaridad, estado civil y ubicación por niveles de urbanización, lo que sugiere que dichas características afectan en distinta forma a las decisiones de ambos sexos.Con relación al efecto de la crisis, los resultados sugieren que esta afectó agudamente al empleo de la población trabajadora desde el domicilio para el sector manufacturero, particularmente a la masculina, mientras que la ensanchó en el sector servicios. PALABRAS CLAVEMujeres, trabajo en casa, empleo de la mujer, productos manufacturados, sector terciario, datos estadísticos, México CLASIFICACIÓN JEL101, 116, J20, C35 AUTORES Lilia Domínguez V. es profesora e investigadora

Working from home is an option that differs from other forms of employment. This type of employment is driven not only by globalization and outsourcing, but also by unequal gender relationships within the home. Two multi-logistic regressions were used to determine how the distribution of in-home working arrangements differs by sex and by male/female age range, level of education, marital status and degree of urbanization of the place of residence. The results suggest that these characteristics have a differential influence on men's and women's employment decisions. The results also indicate that the crisis had a strong impact on the employment levels of home-based workers, especially male homeworkers, at the same time that it boosted employment in the services sector.

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