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Using US Census data for 1990-2000, we estimate effects of NAFTA on US wages. We look for effects of the agreement by …
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In this paper, I study the effect of economic integration with the United States on state-industry employment growth in Mexico. I disentangle the effects of two opposing forces on regional labor demand: transport-cost considerations, which, all else equal, encourage firms to relocate their...
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estimated elasticities to identify the impact of NAFTA's tariff reductions. We find that Mexico's welfare increases by 1.31%, U …
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Agreement (NAFTA). Under NAFTA, licenses and quotas that restricted agricultural trade between Mexico and the United States were …, remain in effect for bilateral Canadian- U.S. trade. NAFTA received support from export-oriented U.S. producers of most … disputes about Canadian exports of wheat and peanut butter. With these concessions, NAFTA results in essentially no reform of …
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We provide a quantitative assessment of both the aggregate and the distributional effects of revoking NAFTA using a … NAFTA would reduce US welfare by about 0.2%, and Canadian and Mexican welfare by about 2%. The distributional impacts of … revoking NAFTA across workers in different sectors are an order of magnitude larger in all three countries, ranging from -2 …
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This paper uses a case study approach to explore the effects of NAFTA and GATT membership on innovation and trade in … effect of NAFTA and the GATT on the SDS industry was to help induce Wal-Mart to enter Mexico. Once there, Walmex …
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Using US Census data for 1990-2000, we estimate effects of NAFTA on US wages, focusing on differences by gender. We … find that NAFTA tariff reductions are associated with substantially reduced wage growth for married blue-collar women, much …
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This paper assesses the economic conditions for Asian countries to cope with the formation of EU and NAFTA. Is it … Asian countries against two big blocs in the world, EU and NAFTA; (ii) it is natural for the United States to discourage …
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One of the motivations for NAFTA from the US point of view was to reduce the" incentives for Mexican migration into the …-Ohlin model. Existing evidence, along with best guesses of many experts in the" area, suggest that NAFTA is unlikely to have a … theoretical" contributions in order to offer reasons why NAFTA may not raise the wages of unskilled" Mexican workers …
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America has relatively high capital per worker even after adding the Mexican workforce. However, NAFTA does seem to have the …
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