There was an article in my local paper, the San Antonio Express-News, a couple of days ago titled "NAFTA took jobs, workers from Mexico." The author claimed that NAFTA drove 1.5 million farming families out of business by allowing subsidized U.S. corn into Mexico. Those workers went
I asked the other day about research that addresses the link between the trade deficit and unemployment rates. My guess is that it has been studied quite a bit, with probably alot of papers on it.
But I tried something myself anyway.
I ran a regression in which the yearly percentage point
Sorry. That study I did covered the U.S. from 1961-2000.
Cyril Morong
I added a real wagechange variable to the regression I explained earlier. Doing so had little effect on the r-squared and the standard errror. The r-squared increased from .841 to .854 and the standard error fell from .396 to .3908. The coefficients and t-values for the GDP, trade balance and
On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 03:40:39PM -0700, Scott Eric Merryman wrote:
Paul Krugman has an article on NAFTA you might find interesting.
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If job creation isn't the point of NAFTA, what is? Another possible
justification is the classic economic argument that free trade will raise
U.S
Mexican real GDP increased 5.2 percent, and the real value of the peso
was quite high in 1994, both factors that would have boosted U.S. exports
to Mexico. As a result, it is unlikely that NAFTA and its lower trade
barriers were the only influence on bilateral trade flows. To isolate the
effects
Howdy,
I recently visited a web page by a political scientist
that seemed to suggest that NAFTA was a failure. I'd
enjoy reading your opinions on the question of whether
NAFTA made the world a better place or a worse place,
or if it really had no impact. Also, if you could
also say why you
I recently visited a web page by a political scientist
that seemed to suggest that NAFTA was a failure. I'd
-jsh
Could you summarize the evidence he/she presents?
Fabio
John,
Paul Krugman has an article on NAFTA you might find interesting.
HOW IS NAFTA DOING? It's Been Hugely Successful - As A
Foreign Policy
http://www.pkarchive.org/trade/nafta.html
He writes
NAFTA's defenders are saddled with a big public relations problem: The
agreement was sold under
