during the last decade produced higher enforcement of labor regulations. The paper computes before-after estimates of the … effect of FTAs on labor inspections and exploits variation across countries using non-signers as a comparison group. The … of labor inspectors and a 60 percent increase in the number of inspections. The North American Free Trade Agreement …

during the last decade produced higher enforcement of labor regulations. The paper computes before-after estimates of the … effect of FTAs on labor inspections and exploits variation across countries using non-signers as a comparison group. The … of labor inspectors and a 60 percent increase in the number of inspections. The North American Free Trade Agreement …

This paper proposes a new approach for enriching results for U.S. labor markets from the leading multi-regional CGE … model, the GTAP model. Departing from the usual approach of expanding labor data in all economies in a model's database, our … method expands only the U.S. labor data. Additionally, we introduce a novel modification to primary factor demands …

measures differences in labor productivity (the Ricardian measure), and the other differences in total factor productivity (the …