(a) Manufacturing US (b) Manufacturing Mexico (c) Services Mexico Figure 4: Age and Management score: mean Figure 5: Age and Management score: spread (a) Manufacturing US (b) Manufacturing Mexico (c) Services Mexico Notes: The mean and variance of management score as a function of firm age. 6,643 observations on Mexican manufacturing; 17,684
observations on Mexican services; and 32,000 US manufacturing plants.
Figure 6: Management scores by state (a) Manufacturing (b) Services Notes: 6,643 observations on Mexican manufacturing; 17,684 observations on Mexican services. Authors' calculations with
data from ENAPROCE 2015 and 2018, INEGI.
Figure 7: CDFs Management score drive time to the border (a) Manufacturing (b) Services Figure 8: Sources of misallocation: Drive time to the border (a) Manufacturing (b) Services Notes: 6,643 observations on Mexican manufacturing; 17,684 observations on Mexican services. CDFs are weighted by firm employment size.
Figure 10: Sources of misallocation: market size (a) Manufacturing (b) Services Notes: 6,643 observations on Mexican manufacturing; 17,684 observations on Mexican services. CDFs are weighted by firm employment size.
Figure 9: CDFs Management score market size (a) Manufacturing (b) Services
Figure 11: CDFs Management score according to institutional strengths