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Trade Creation and Trade Diversion Under NAFTA

Krueger, Anne O. - 1999

Aggregate and more micro data on trade between the U.S., Canada, and Mexico are used to attempt to assess the early effects of Mexican entry into NAFTA. Although the fraction of Mexican trade with the U.S. and Canada has risen sharply, a number of factors have contributed to this result. Mexican...

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The Long-Run Labor Market Effects of the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement

Kovak, Brian K.; Morrow, Peter M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

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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The Economics and Politics of Revoking NAFTA

Auer, Raphael - 2018

We provide a quantitative assessment of both the aggregate and the distributional effects of revoking NAFTA using a multi-country, multi-sector, multi-factor model of world production and trade with global input-output linkages. Revoking NAFTA would reduce US welfare by about 0.2%, and Canadian...

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Looking for Local Labor Market Effects of NAFTA

McLaren, John - 2010

Using US Census data for 1990-2000, we estimate effects of NAFTA on US wages. We look for effects of the agreement by industry and by geography, measuring each industry's vulnerability to Mexican imports, and each locality's dependance on vulnerable industries. We find evidence of both effects,...

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NAFTA's and CUSFTA's Impact on International Trade

Romalis, John - 2005

This paper identifies the effects of preferential trade agreements on trade volumes and prices using detailed trade and tariff data. It identifies demand elasticities by developing a difference in differences based method that exploits the fact that the additional wedge driven between...

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NAFTA and Mexico's Less-Than-Stellar Performance

Tornell, Aaron - 2004

of further judicial and structural reform after 1995. In fact, the benefits of liberalization can be seen in the …

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Liberalization and Incentives for Labor Migration : Theory with Applications to NAFTA

Markusen, James R. - 1997

One of the motivations for NAFTA from the US point of view was to reduce the" incentives for Mexican migration into the US. Unskilled rural males are a primary source of" illegal immigration and also Mexico's relatively abundant factor. This group should therefore" be made better off by trade...

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EU, NAFTA, and Asian Responses : A Perspective from the Calculus of Participation

Goto, Junichi - 1995

This paper assesses the economic conditions for Asian countries to cope with the formation of EU and NAFTA. Is it desirable for them to form their own trading area? And, if desirable, is it better to have a closed one like the EAEC or a more open one like the APEC? Relying on public economics...

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The Political Economy of Mexico's Entry to NAFTA

Tornell, Aaron - 1995

likely to happen by government decree. Instead, they usually come about when the unanimous blocking of reform by powerful … sustainability of reform depends on the existence of new groups that benefit from the new status quo and have enough power to defend … it. Thus, the speed of successful reform is determined by the speed with which new groups are consolidated. Initially …

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Agricultural Interest Groups and the North American Free Trade Agreement

Orden, David - 1994

disputes about Canadian exports of wheat and peanut butter. With these concessions, NAFTA results in essentially no reform of …

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