 Das neue Nordamerikanische Freihandelsabkommen mit besserem Sozialkapitel?WSI-Mitteilungen, 2020, vol. 73, issue 2, 83-92 Abstract: The new North American Free Trade Agreement – with an improved social chapter? The social chapter of the new North American Free Trade Agreement (USMCA) contains two innovations: the requirement for a minimum average wage in the manufacture of motor vehicles (labour value content clause) and the reform of Mexican labour law. These elements are examined for their impact on wage dumping, i. e. to what extent they protect US wage earners from further relocations and contribute to wage increases in Mexico. First, the lack of protection for wage earners provided by the former North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the deficits in labour law in Mexico which motivated the new social chapter are identified. Following this, there is an overview of the paragraphs in the USMCA relating to labour relations before the reform provisions and also the labour value content clause in Mexican labour law are discussed in more detail. The subsequent assessment shows that the concrete form of the labour value clause makes it ineffective and that the success of the labour law reform will depend on intra-Mexican power relations. The article concludes by asking what aspects of the USMCA social chapter European trade policy should adopt. Date: 2020 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:nms:wsimit:10.5771/0342-300x-2020-2-83 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from DOI: 10.5771/0342-300X-2020-2-83 Access Statistics for this article More articles in WSI-Mitteilungen from Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG |
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