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Taking advantage of the liberalization process under NAFTA, this paper assesses the relative importance of the degree …
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identify the effects of NAFTA on wages and on returns to schooling. The results support the presence of Stolper-Samuelson type …
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NAFTA was enacted and, as a consequence, business cycles in these countries became more synchronized. This suggests that the …
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The results in Chiquiar and Ramos-Francia (2005) suggested that the long-run relationship between the US’s and Mexico’s manufacturing sectors was weakened after China joined the World Trade Organization (WTO). When that paper was made, however, this shock was too recent and, therefore, the...
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This paper analyzes the effect of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) on Mexican manufacturing price cost … reductions under NAFTA, the results show that PCMs immediately decreased once the second round of trade liberalization in Mexico … accounts for the sensitivity of each industry to the initial level of its tariff and presents evidence showing that while NAFTA …
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In this paper we identify Mexico’s pattern of revealed comparative advantages within manufacturing trade flows during the 1996-2005 period. We define a basket of competing countries, according to the degree of similarity of each country’s comparative advantage pattern with that of Mexico. We...
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We analyze if the pattern of comparative advantages and the recent behavior of Mexican manufacturing exports, vis-à-vis its closest competitors, are related with productivity differentials or with differences in factor endowments. The relative abundance of relatively unskilled labor in Mexico...
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