Education, Gender and Aging in Urban Mexico. Towards a comparative study 2000-2010.

With the heterogeneous distribution of knowledge-intensive occupations throughout Mexican cities, it is natural to ask what drives sectors of society to establish in one place or another. Whether responding to access to resources necessary to develop activities, the sense of ‘belonging’ somewhere or the availability of a particular desired service, it is evident that some regions amass larger quantities of human capital than others. How is the human capital distributed over the urban areas in Mexico? What significant differences can be found between age, gender, schooling and experience of the workforce? In this study, 56 metropolitan cities are considered and studied as members of a proposed network with 18 regional nodes. Work is carried out to try and support or refute that education services appropriately represented by this network. It is shown that higher level educational institutions are clustered in some regions of the country thus may not necessarily conform to where the human capital is located. Furthermore, this is explored by means of educational attainment for males and females and different cohorts in a 10-year span for the general population and for those in or with a graduate degree. Finally, the relationship between the regional nodes, educational offer and migration flows is studied.