Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). In event-study analysis, we demonstrate that counties whose 1990 employment depended on … industries vulnerable to NAFTA suffered large and persistent employment losses relative to other counties. These losses begin in … data, we show that protectionist views predict movement toward the GOP in the years that NAFTA is debated and implemented …

This paper estimates the effects of NAFTA on labor and wages in Mexico using a local labor-markets approach. While … NAFTA offered greater export opportunities to Mexican firms that may raise employment, it also opened the door to increased … import competition that may dampen employment gains. This paper finds that in the first decade of its existence, NAFTA had a …