This study examines the effect of NAFTA, an instance of North-South trade liberalization, on returns to skill in Mexico …, NAFTA ought to have raised the relative earnings of low-skill workers, that is, lowered returns to skill in Mexico. Analysis … 1999 in industries liberalized relatively rapidly by NAFTA, launched in 1994, than in industries liberalized relatively …

North American Trade Agreement (NAFTA). In all industries, an overwhelming share of aggregate productivity growth is … accounted for by a small number of plants which were larger and more productive before the implementation of NAFTA and expanded … and became more productive following the implementation of NAFTA. Plants that exported before NAFTA and export …

accrues long after entry, when plants become large exporters. -- NAFTA ; trade liberalization ; productivity ; heterogeneity …

In this paper we study the effect of NAFTA on the responsiveness of Mexican economy to real exchange rate shocks. We … argue that, by opening the U.S. and Canadian markets to Mexican goods, NAFTA made it easier for domestic producers to take … observed in the mid 1980s, the second the Tequila Crisis of 1994-5. The evidence indicates that after passage of NAFTA …