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effects of Mexican entry into NAFTA. Although the fraction of Mexican trade with the U.S. and Canada has risen sharply, a … alteration of exchange rate policy at the end of l994 were both important. Based on early returns, the impact of NAFTA over its …
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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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This paper assesses the long-run effects of the 1988 Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (CUSFTA) on the Canadian labor market using matched longitudinal administrative data for the years 1984-2004. We simultaneously examine the labor market effects of increased export expansion and import...
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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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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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quantities. Analysis of world-wide trade data for 5,000 commodities shows that NAFTA and CUSFTA have had a substantial impact on … international trade volumes, but a modest effect on prices and welfare. NAFTA and CUSFTA increased North American output and prices …
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blamed on either the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) or the other reforms that were implemented, but on the lack …
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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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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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formal agreements like NAFTA lies not so much in the ability of these agreements to reduce average import tariffs among their …
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