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With the signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in 1994, Mexico entered a bilateral free trade agreement which not only lowered its own tariffs on imports but also lowered tariffs on its exports to the U.S. We find that women's relative wage increased, particularly during the...
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reform paid their workers high wages, and raised the premium paid to workers in states along the U.S. border. These changes …
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The standard neo-classical model of wage setting predicts short-term effects of temporary labor market shocks on careers and low costs of recessions for both more and less advantaged workers. In contrast, a vast range of alternative career models based on frictions in the labor market suggests...
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The standard neo-classical model of wage setting predicts short-term effects of temporary labor market shocks on careers and low costs of recessions for both more and less advantaged workers. In contrast, a vast range of alternative career models based on frictions in the labor market suggests...
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employment consequences of NHI in Canada, using the fact that NHI was introduced on a staggered basis across the Canadian … provinces. We examine monthly data on employment, wages, and hours across 8 industries and 10 provinces over the 1961- 1975 … period. We find that employment actually rose after the introduction of NHI; wages increased as well, while average hours …
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This paper examines educational earnings differentials in Canada in the 1980s and compares changes in differentials to … those in the United States. Our major finding is that the college/high school differential increased much less in Canada … gaps narrowed, and age pay gaps increased in Canada as in the United States. The greater growth of the college graduate …
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designed to maintain wages of low-skilled workers. With or without a free trade agreement. the United States faces a …
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In this paper we analyse the Canada-U.S. Auto Pact, a selectivetrade liberalization agreement which created a duty … industry had production facilities on bothsides of the Canada-U.S. border before 1965, and no significant new entryinto Canada …
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This paper presents a general equilibrium approach to calculating labour adjustment costs induced by trade policy changes or external sector shocks, which we illustrate by analyzing the adjustment consequences of eliminating quotas and tariffs on U.S. imports. In our approach, factor adjustments...
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reexamine the effects of trade unions both on relative wages and on relative man hours worked.Our estimates of the relative wage …
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