Labor Markets in Regional Trade Agreements: What Do We Know ?

Jaime de Melo and Regolo Julie
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Regolo Julie: FERDI

No P69, Working Papers from FERDI

Abstract: Globalization has failed to relax barriers to the movement of labor, especially unskilled workers. So have North-South Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs), while South-South RTAs have failed to implement good intentions. A literature review of the labor effects of RTAs underscores context specificity precluding generalizations across categories of RTAs. Most ex-ante studies have focused on global welfare effects rather than anticipated labor market effects while ex-post studies have had difficulty isolating any direct effects attributable to implementation of the RTA because of confounding effects as illustrated by a discussion of the wage puzzle in Mexico under NAFTA. The survey reviews labor market and wage results from ex-ante CGE estimates and ex-post household-based econometric estimates.

JEL-codes: F18 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013-03
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