Advanced Search
MyIDEAS: Login

The Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement and Labour Market Adjustment in Canada

Contents:

Author Info

  • Eugene Beaulieu

    (University of Calgary)

Abstract

Evidence suggests that the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (CUSTA) had almost no effect on earnings and had a small negative effect on manufacturing employment. Theory suggests that a change in trade policy may affect skilled and less-skilled workers differently. The labour market consequences of CUSTA tariff reductions are analysed in this paper. It is found that the tariff reductions lowered employment predominantly among less-skilled workers but did not affect the earnings of either skilled or less-skilled workers. The employment effects are due to the fact that relatively less-skill-intensive industries were more highly protected than high-skill-intensive industries prior to CUSTA.

(This abstract was borrowed from another version of this item.)

Download Info

To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
1. Check below under "Related research" whether another version of this item is available online.
2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

Bibliographic Info

Paper provided by Department of Economics, University of Calgary in its series Working Papers with number 1998-11.

as in new window
Length:
Date of creation: 02 Oct 1998
Date of revision: 02 Oct 1998
Handle: RePEc:clg:wpaper:1998-11

Contact details of provider:
Postal: 2500 University Drive N.W., Calgary, Alberta, T2N 1N4
Phone: (403) 220-5857
Fax: (403) 282-5262
Web page: http://econ.ucalgary.ca/
More information through EDIRC

Related research

Keywords:

Other versions of this item:

References

No references listed on IDEAS
You can help add them by filling out this form.

Citations

Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
as in new window

Cited by:
  1. Jen Baggs & James A Brander, 2006. "Trade liberalization, profitability, and financial leverage," Journal of International Business Studies, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 37(2), pages 196-211, March.
  2. Novella Bottini & Michael Gasiorek, 2009. "Trade And Job Reallocation: Evidence For Morocco," Working Papers 492, Economic Research Forum, revised Jun 2009.
  3. Daniel Trefler, 2001. "The Long and Short of the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement," NBER Working Papers 8293, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  4. Moritz Ritter, 2012. "Trade and Inequality in a Directed Search Model with Firm and Worker Heterogeneity," DETU Working Papers 1202, Department of Economics, Temple University.
  5. Daniel Schwanen, 2001. "Trade Liberalization and Inequality in Canada in the 1990s," The Review of Economic Performance and Social Progress, in: Andrew Sharpe, Executive Director & France St-Hilaire, Vice-President , Research & Keith Banting, Di (ed.), The Review of Economic Performance and Social Progress 2001: The Longest Decade: Canada in the 1990s, volume 1 Centre for the Study of Living Standards & The Institutute for Research on Public Policy.
  6. Ian Keay, 2001. "An Empty Promise: Average Cost Savings and Scale Economies Among Canadian and American Manufacturers, 1910-1998," Working Papers 1002, Queen's University, Department of Economics.
  7. Gu, Wulong Sawchuk, Gary Whewell, Lori, 2003. "The Effect of Tariff Reductions on Firm Size and Firm Turnover in Canadian Manufacturing," Economic Analysis (EA) Research Paper Series 2003014e, Statistics Canada, Analytical Studies Branch.
  8. Abler, David G., 2006. "Approaches to Measuring the Effects of Trade Agreements," Commissioned Papers 140762, Canadian Agricultural Trade Policy Research Network.
  9. Richard P. Chaykowski, 2002. "Globalization and the Modernization of Canadian Labour Policy," Canadian Public Policy, University of Toronto Press, vol. 28(1), pages 81-91, March.
  10. Baotai Wang & Ajit Dayanandan, 2006. "Unit Root Tests of Canadian Poverty Measures," Economics Bulletin, AccessEcon, vol. 9(2), pages 1-7.
  11. Gu, Wulong Sawchuk, Gary Whewell, Lori, 2003. "Effet de la reduction des tarifs sur la taille et sur le roulement des entreprises dans le secteur canadien de la fabrication," Serie de documents de recherche sur l'analyse economique (AE) 2003014f, Statistics Canada, Direction des etudes analytiques.
  12. Lileeva, Alla, 2008. "Trade Liberalization and Productivity Dynamics: Evidence from Canada," Economic Analysis (EA) Research Paper Series 2008051e, Statistics Canada, Analytical Studies Branch.
  13. Gabriel Bruneau & Kevin Moran, 2012. "Exchange Rate Fluctuations and Labour Market Adjustments in Canadian Manufacturing Industries," Cahiers de recherche 1227, CIRPEE.
  14. Larochelle-Cote, Sebastien, 2005. "Reductions tarifaires et emploi dans le secteur de la fabrication au Canada, 1988 a 1994," Direction des etudes analytiques : documents de recherche 2005258f, Statistics Canada, Direction des etudes analytiques.
  15. Larochelle-Cote, Sebastien, 2005. "Summary Of: Tariff Reduction and Employment in Canadian Manufacturing, 1988-1994," Analytical Studies Branch Research Paper Series 2005259e, Statistics Canada, Analytical Studies Branch.
  16. Henry Overman & L. Alan Winters, 2003. "Trade Shocks and Industrial Location: the Impact of EEC Accession on the UK," CEP Discussion Papers dp0588, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE.

Lists

This item is not listed on Wikipedia, on a reading list or among the top items on IDEAS.

Statistics

Access and download statistics

Corrections

When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:clg:wpaper:1998-11

For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: (May Ives).

If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

If references are entirely missing, you can add them using this form.

If the full references list an item that is present in RePEc, but the system did not link to it, you can help with this form.

If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.