NAFTA and Comparative Advantage
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I do not understand. If the United States lost hundreds of thousands of jobs, how is it that NAFTA was a good decision for the US and probably not for Mexico and Canada?
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The expert examines NAFTA and comparative advantages.
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First of all most of the jobs lost in U.S were unskilled jobs. For example U.S multinational corporations preferred cheaper labor in Mexican border (maquiladoras)
during the first years of NAFTA and benefited from this (They currently switched to China). It may sound like a ...
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