development and hence integration prospects of NAFTA, ASEAN, MERCOSUR and EU. …

Using U.S. Census data for 1990-2000, we estimate effects of NAFTA on U.S. wages, focusing on differences by gender. We … find that NAFTA tariff reductions are associated with substantially reduced wage growth for married blue-collar women, much …

suggests the threat to workers livelihoods inherent in the NAFTA should be reduced, and common sense suggests reducing the …

labor markets after the introduction of NAFTA in the nineties and the accession of China to the WTO in 2001. Following an … international markets to identify the effects of these events. We show that NAFTA integration reduced unemployment, and boosted …

This paper studies whether NAFTA contributed to the productivity convergence between Mexico and the US. Using data from … finds no clear evidence for NAFTA's contribution to the TFP convergence. These findings are in a sharp contrast with that of … the previous literature. The paper also finds that under NAFTA the industries which have smaller initial productivity gap …

Using NAFTA's effect on Mexico's exports as a natural experiment, this paper conducts an empirical analysis on the … the common prediction, i.e., NAFTA's positive impact on new goods exports from Mexico to the US. The paper then proposes a …

is constrained both by regional economic compacts (in the case of Mexico, NAFTA) and by having a large share of the …

This paper estimates econometrically the impact of NAFTA on US-Mexico and US-third countries (groups of countries … the specification, we interpret the changes in these dummy variables over time as evidence on whether NAFTA affected the … trade patterns. The main conclusion is that NAFTA did not have a significant effect on US trade patterns, neither with …