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Tariff elimination and the wage gap in an industrial specific factors model
Thompson, Henry; Francis, John - In: Review of international economics 17 (2009) 3, pp. 447-460
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Trade liberalization, unemployment and adjustment : evidence from NAFTA using state level data
Francis, John; Zheng, Yuqing - In: Applied economics 43 (2011) 13/15, pp. 1657-1671
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Trade Liberalization, Unemployment and Adjustment : Evidence from NAFTA Using State Level Data
Francis, John; Zheng, Yuqing - 2009
This paper specifies a supply and demand model of the labor market to examine the effects of NAFTA on the US labor market. Regression results suggest that NAFTA decreased yearly unemployment growth by 4.4%. Equivalently, NAFTA brought a structural break to US state level unemployment. The second...
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